Trail of the Octopus (book)

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Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie – Inside the DIA is a book co-written by

Lockerbie bombing.[5]

New Yorker said that Coleman chose to have the book published in the UK because "negative publicity ruined the book market for him in the U.S." Byron said that attempts by Bloomsbury to sell the book in the United States "seem to have failed." A spokesperson for Bloomsbury stated that she had "complete confidence" in Coleman's statements. According to Byron, after a series of interviews with people mentioned in the book, he could not find any who had been contacted by Bloomsbury about their role in the book.[6]

Hurley sued Bloomsbury in a

The Mobile Register stated that the book publishers admitted that Coleman's statements against Hurley had no truth and paid Hurley's legal fees and an additional undisclosed sum.[1]

As of 2013 the book is published by

BookSurge.[7]

Reception

Alasdair Palmer of The Spectator wrote that the authors do not present sufficient evidence and that they do not defend the theories they espouse in the book; according to Palmer, instead they attack the people they oppose.[8]

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References

  1. ^
    Times Daily
    . Friday October 25, 1996. 9 of 16. Retrieved on September 28, 2010.
  2. Amazon.com
    on October 25, 2010. "First United States Publication 2009 First United Kingdom Publication 1993."
  3. ISBN 0-312-08997-X
    .
  4. ^
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution
    . April 30, 2000. C5. Retrieved on September 26, 2010. "Coleman, an American, seemed a good candidate. He had a Lebanese wife and had traveled widely in that country and in other parts of the Middle East." and "byline "Collin Knox," a pseudonym frequently used by Coleman." and "Coleman has since been convicted of federal charges of perjury and state charges of forgery. But the conspiracy theory lives on on the Web --- the convictions just another part of the government's effort to keep him quiet and hide the real truth about Pan Am 103." and "Coleman's primary target in the book, the head of the DEA office in Cyprus, successfully sued the British publisher and Coleman for libel in a London court. The publisher had to offer a public apology and destroy all remaining copies of the book."
  5. ^ "Taking the Blame". London Review of Books - author, Paul Foot. 6 January 1994. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
  6. ISSN 0028-7369
    .
  7. Amazon.com catalog entry for 2009 paperback edition Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie - Inside the DIA [Paperback]
    . Retrieved on December 15, 2013.
  8. ^ "What happened before the big bang?" (Archive). The Spectator. 5 February 1994. p. 26. Retrieved on September 26, 2014.
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