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“A barfly who writes about the intrigue and lunacy of life, Robert Eringer may be to Monaco what Hemingway was to Havana.”
NBC Today
“We use Eringer’s novels as a blueprint for planning intelligence operations.”
Operations Chief, a European intelligence service
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ZUBRICK’S ROCK
Intrigue and Lunacy in Monte Carlo
National Press Books, 1995
Intrigue, lunacy, comedy, the CIA, exotic locations, royalty… and a dentist from Hoboken, New Jersey.
Multimillionaire recluse Barry Zubrick’s tax exile status in glamorous Monte Carlo is threatened when the police revoke his residency permit. So Zubrick, who has always wanted his own country, plots to overthrow the picturesque principality.
With the assistance of a former CIA official, Zubrick schemes to seize Monaco “legitimately” by tracing a descendant of the Spinola family, which briefly ruled the principality over 700 years ago – and installing him as the true prince.
Enter Gerry Spinola – dentist, gambler and alcoholic from Hoboken,
New Jersey – and the only heir Zubrick can dig up on short notice.
Zubrick cuts a deal with Spinola to become his puppet.
Stirring a retired general and a band of soldiers-of-fortune into his mix, Zubrick assembles the ingredients for a coup d’etat.
Taking Monaco is easy, he reckons. The problem is, what to do about France, which is pledged to protect the principality’s rule.
Brimming with comedy and suspense, Zubrick’s Rock is swiftly paced with outrageously off-beat characters, starting with the paranoid Zubrick himself.
“Outrageous. Exciting. Mr. Eringer knows Monaco well and makes it a real backdrop for fantasy and fun!”
William Colby, Former CIA Director
“One of the best thrillers I’ve read in thirty years. A prime example of how a fine novel of suspense should be written.”
Stephen Longstreet, Best-selling novelist
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CRINKUM CRANKUM
Enigma Books, Bartleby Press, 1998
A serial terrorist is on the loose.
A struggle between the FBI and the CIA ensues over who can catch him.
A freelance government operative is on the job. He has Tourette’s syndrome and looks exactly like Bruce Willis.
It gets even zanier.
When agents from the IRS appear, two divergent stories become hopelessly intertwined. The recalcitrant characters revolt and fight for primacy, and a reluctant author is forced to arbitrate. He uses the opportunity to have some fun of his own.
Crinkum Crankum is a thriller that takes a sharp twist into surreality.
This is an unusual, outrageously funny yarn that plunks the traditional novel on its spine.
It may be a metaphor for something. Certainly, Crinkum Crankum is one writer’s brave attemp to to wave his pen as if it were a magic wand.
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LO MEIN
Corinthian Books, 2000
Driven to desperate measures by rejection, artist Willard Stukey resolves to bring attention to his work by committing mass-murder.
He chooses Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, for his exhibition of “live art.”
An anguished Disney chairman hires freelance trouble-shooter Jeff Dalkin, who suffers from Tourette’s syndrome and curses uncontrollably, to help contain the media circus that ensues.
Meanwhile, Stukey makes the most of mammoth publicity with spontaneous demands to showcase his paintings.
Eringer’s tale is a brush stroke of suspense, shaded with comedy, tinged with farce. Its hue is popular culture, glazed with insanity; art versus humanity.
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PARALLEL TRUTHS
Corinthian Books, 2001
Meet Jay Sandak, a maverick private spy with a penchant for the good life. In this debut novel, Sandak accepts an assignment from his former employer, the CIA.
Operating out of Monaco, Sandak becomes embroiled in an extraordinary rendition, intelligence jargon for kidnap and repatriation. The target is Markham Fitch, a secretive billionaire who fled the United States for sanctuary in Switzerland years earlier.
Fitch leads Sandak to a strange German baron, a peddler of nuclear metals stolen from Russia, who believes his genius will bring about a new age renaissance.
Sandak enters a gray zone of rival U.S. government agencies, supervised by risk-hating bureaucrats like Pikestaff, the spluttering operations chief at the CIA.
He struggles to complete his ever-evolving mission, always one cocktail ahead of latigue (a combination of jet-lag and fatigue) as he yo-yos the Atlantic.
Back in his favorite Monaco bar, Sandak plans the final phases of this intricate operation, certain he wasn’t paid nearly enough for his audacity.
“No one writes a funnier novel about modern day spying than Robert Eringer. It is clear he understands espionage and international intrigue.”
Clair George, Former Deputy Director for Operations, CIA
“Insightful, fast-moving – and hilarious from beginning to end.”
Walt Perry, Former Sting-Undercover Specialist, IRS
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SPOOKAROONIE
Corinthian Books, 2002
After experiencing a mysterious vision, high-tech billionaire Jim Riddle is on a mission to find the truth. He is offering megabucks for the real story behind everything from UFOs to the assassination of JFK.
Enter Jeff Dalkin, an ex-FBI agent who suffers from Tourette’s syndrome and looks exactly like Bruce Willis. Hired by the secretive Harvey Kimbach to fulfill Riddle’s request, Dalkin soon finds his life complicated by a second assignment.
The assistant director of the FBI has a problem, and Dalkin is the solution. Former CIA official Miles Stolhman has turned up in
Havana, suffering from paranoid delusions. Has he been kidnapped? Is he a traitor? Dalkin must risk life and liberty to find out.
As events reach a climax, Dalkin finds more questions than answers.
Why is Kimbach so evasive about the source of the data he gives to Dalkin? Is Riddle hiding a secret of his own? What shocking revelations are contained in Stolhman’s diary?
Spurred by visions of huge financial rewards, Dalkin becomes the target of a global manhunt, with the CIA, the FBI, Cuban intelligence agents, and Libyan thugs hot on his trail. |
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