Book Tour, Guest Post & Giveaway for DIRTY TRICKSTER, CORPORATE SPY by Martin D. Kelly! {Ends 2/2/19}

Book Details:
 Dirty Trickster, Corporate Spy by Martin D. Kelly
Category:  Adult Non-Fiction, 410 pages | Genre:  Memoir
Publisher:  Strategic Media Books | Release date:  August 2018
Tour dates: Jan 14 to 25, 2019
Content Rating: PG-13 (One sex scene but humorous rather than explicit; some 4-letter words)
Book Description: 
    Not until Dirty Trickster, Corporate Spy does a memoir exist by one of the principal Watergate saboteurs-provocateurs that exposes the full extent of the insalubrious side of politics and negative campaigning. And that is not all: After Watergate, Kelly became a corporate security consultant that provided undercover agents for client companies to spy on their employees. Kelly also specialized in eavesdropping detection, which took him around the world searching for clandestine listening devices for clients such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bob Hope, Ferdinand Marcos, the Miami Dolphins, Eastern Airlines and even suspected drug dealers. He secretly provided debugging training for entities such as IBM, Revlon, the U.S. Navy and dozens of others.
    During President Nixon's second term when the Watergate scandal erupted, Kelly teamed with Donald Segretti in a wild series of underhanded capers that created havoc in the Democratic presidential primaries. Kelly and Segretti turned a fundraising dinner for front-runner Senator Ed Muskie at the Washington Hilton into absolute chaos; hired a University of Miami coed to strip naked and parade before Muskie's hotel; released two mice and a bird that threw a Muskie press conference into total confusion; organized fake luncheons, fake press releases, and other unscrupulous acts. The aim of the Nixon White House and Committee to Reelect the President was for the dirty tricksters to sow discontent among the Democratic primary candidates so they would blame each other for the dirty tricks, making it more difficult for them to unite in the general election against Nixon. The author was one of only three witnesses who testified specifically about dirty tricks before the Senate Watergate Committee.

Initial chapters reveal how dirty tricks were covertly planned and executed, how Kelly dealt with special prosecutors, investigators, Karl Rove, Watergate Judge John Sirica, the FBI, an inebriated Senator Ted Kennedy, the seven U.S. Senators on the Senate Watergate Committee, Bernstein and Woodward, Lesley Stahl and others in the media. Mid chapters expose inside secrets on successful tactics for public-office seekers or those climbing the rough-and-tumble steps of internal party politics.

In final chapters, Kelly unveils the widespread corporate spying that is going on in America to this day, with amazing examples from his security consulting career as a covert industrial undercover agent and secret mystery shopper who spied on all levels of employees. Kelly also fully discloses his role as a polygraph examiner and interrogator with hilarious anecdotes as well as how polygraph can be beaten. Even more controversial examples are revealed from Kelly's specialized international work as a detector of clandestine listening devices, complete with the tools and tricks of the trade.

With an intriguing yet amusing style, Kelly names names and holds back nothing in Dirty Trickster, Corporate Spy.

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MY REVIEW: (LAWonder10)
​       This memoir is totally interesting and somewhat enlightening.
    In his own words, Martin Kelly relates how he became in involved in the Watergate Conspiracy, what he did, his entire hearing, why he did not go to jail, and the negative impact it had on the rest of his life.
    It, also, tells of how he tried to learn from this major mistake and make something worthwhile of his remaining years. 
   He explains much about Watergate I was unclear on, and I have always been quite involved in politics. It is amazing of how "dirty" politics has always been a part of political power, not excluding the U.S.A.I I question, how many individuals in today's society really know what Watergate was all about.
     I am further amazed that what President Trump has been forced to endure, is worse than Nixon ever thought of doing, yet nobody is held accountable! 
    In the past, once a candidate won, the other party accepted it and worked at supporting the administration. There was still integrity, which is greatly missing in most of today's Politicians.
Martin Kelly humbly admits he deserved everything he got sand more, and is very regrettable he allowed himself to be persuaded into setting aside his values to be a part of this despicable
plot.
   The main problem I had with this book is there was quite a bit of repetition. (Plus, personally, I disliked the crude sexual comments and profanity,
   The Book Title was chosen well and the Cover image depicted the two sides of all, very well. It would be eye-catching to "the browser:>
     I offer a Four Stars rating for this book.
*This was gifted me with no stipulation of a positive review. This is my honest review.

Guest Post by Martin D. Kelly, author of Dirty Trickster, Corporate Spy
    The first commitment one must make in writing a memoir is being honest. There's a huge incentive to make yourself the hero of every anecdote and to minimize damaging your self- image. However, I vowed to take the "brutal honesty" route for two reasons: Readers realize -- and even empathize -- with the notion that to err is human, and the accuracy of events recounted throughout the entire book will more likely be trusted.
    For example, you'll be shaking your head in disgust at the end of Chapter Three. I'd traveled from Miami to Palm Beach to address a Republican Club about a candidate I was supporting at an upcoming convention. With some time on my hands before that meeting, I visited a swank Palm Beach resort and by accident met Senator Ted Kennedy. We swapped stories amid downing a few cocktails. After arriving at the club meeting, I imbibed yet more alcoholic beverages. The depiction of my unsavory drive home that evening involved a rather pathetic array of experiences, but to leave them out of the chapter would not have framed the ordeal honestly.
    Another such example involved my acquiescing to a vengeance-seeking young wife. She'd just learned that her husband had broken their wedding vow of faithfulness, and it was payback time. Unfortunately -- and perhaps fortunately for the hubby -- my performance with her was anything but stellar. In fact, it turned out to be so embarrassingly pathetic that I promise you'll be gasping with laughter. As I say in the book about that incident, I like to think I saved a marriage that night.
      And so, gentle reader, I decided to expose the thorns as well as the roses in Dirty Trickster, Corporate Spy.

About the Author:
Martin D. "Doug" Kelly is a successful author and freelance writer who resides in Clearwater, Florida. A rising Republican activist in college, his role in Watergate dashed any political ambitions. He thereafter engaged in a security-consulting career that included spying on the workforces of corporate America, during which time he also become renowned internationally as a locator of clandestine listening devices. When not fishing and playing golf, Kelly contributes travel- and outdoors-related articles for a variety of publications and co-hosts a weekly syndicated radio talk show. ​
Connect with Martin:  Twitter ​​

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