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description: the story of the life of author Paulette Cooper the most famous victim of the Church of Scientologys notorious and ruthless Fair Game retaliation schemes.Ortega the former editor-in-chief of The Village Voice spent two years working with Cooper interviewing her and reviewing her personal papers as well as interviewing dozens of people many of whom have never spoken publicly before in order to piece together this stunning account of what it can cost someone to unearth Scientologys secrets.His sources include witnesses to Coopers harassment and in a few cases people who took part in it. Those interviews as well as documents which have never been previously made public provide the first full telling of what Paulette Cooper experienced  from her childhood in a Nazi concentration camp to her life as a New York magazine writer to becoming the most famous target of Scientologys revenge.Silvertail Books previously published BBC journalist John Sweeneys book The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology and last year brought Russell Millers landmark biography of Scientologys founder Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard back into print for the first time in 27 years.Silvertail publisher Humfrey Hunter said: A lot of people have been waiting a long time for Tony Ortega to write a book about Scientology and The Unbreakable Miss Lovely will not disappoint. It is an extraordinary story of terrible things done to a woman who did not deserve them and shines a light into the darkest corner of the history of the Church of Scientology. Tony has done a wonderful job with the narrative  the story reads like a thriller. This is an outstanding work of investigative authorship by a very fine journalist and Im delighted Silvertail is to be his publisher.Tony Ortega has written about Scientology as a journalist for nearly 20 years and began working with Paulette Cooper about her life story while he was still at the Voice. Ortega appears in Alex Gibneys HBO-produced documentary about Scientology Going Clear which premieres at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah on January 25 and he will be in attendance.Silvertail bought world rights directly from the author and will publish in paperback and ebook in May 2015 in the US and the UK.
language: English
title: The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology Tried to Destroy Paulette Cooper
publisher: Silvertail Books