Heresy Press Acquires Misadventures on K Street, the Second Memoir by KRL International CEO K. Riva Levinson

WASHINGTON D.C., DC, UNITED STATES, August 24, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — KRL International is pleased to announce that Heresy Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, has acquired Misadventures on K Street: My Decade with the Architects of Modern Political Scandal, the highly anticipated second memoir by its CEO K. Riva Levinson. Scheduled for publication on February 16, 2027, the release serves as the unfiltered prequel to Levinson’s critically acclaimed earlier memoir, Choosing the Hero.

According to Heresy Press Director Bernard Schweizer, “I knew I had something special in my hands as soon as I started reading the manuscript for Misadventures on K Street. Riva’s book is uncompromising in its truth-telling, risk-taking, and boundary pushing. The manuscript grabbed me by the proverbial lapels from start to finish…and the rest is history.”

In Misadventures on K Street, Levinson recounts her decade embedded with the high-powered Washington D.C. lobbying firm—Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly—from its rise in 1985 to its shuttering a decade later. At twenty-four, she found herself the lone woman in the room at an enterprise that functioned as a privatized, rogue Department of State. While her partners pulled strings from their offices overlooking the Potomac, Levinson was on the front lines, navigating real-world danger across the proxy wars of the Reagan era.

Moving between the boardrooms and back channels of Washington, and hostile environments overseas, the narrative discloses, with original archival details, the campaigns the firm orchestrated for controversial international clients. Levinson recounts hazardous foreign missions spanning Angola, South Africa, Somalia, Pakistan, India, Kashmir, Nicaragua, and Sri Lanka. The book lays bare the ethical compromises, covert operations, and political theater that fundamentally reshaped United States foreign policy, with lasting international ramifications that persist today. Levinson uses the book to bring back to life the friends and colleagues whose stories—and lives—were cut short by the human fallout of high-stakes geopolitics.

“It’s a prequel to Choosing the Hero. It is before there was Ellen and before there was a hero to choose,” Levinson told Bloomberg Government in her first exclusive interview about her forthcoming memoir. “It’s like the origin story, and it’s not only my origin story, but also, I believe, the origin story of lobbying today.”

K. Riva Levinson
KRL International
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