CENSORED!!
Under enormous pressure which the
publishers will not identify or even acknowledge, Barracade Books has cancelled
publication of the American release of Trail of the Octopus, according to a company
spokesperson.
But now a new distributor has committed to
marketing this book, and doing it in a big way. Hats off to this new company, and
"stay tuned" for further information.
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A description of the book, as it was anticipated in the fall of 1996, follows:
SIX MILES UP AND FALLING THROUGH SPACE, THE
ACTUAL STUFF OF NIGHTMARE, THEN THEY WOULD HAVE KNOWN, THOSE STILL AWARE. IT WOULD BE TWO
TO THREE MINUTES YET BEFORE THE EARTH RECEIVED THEM... 
It was a terrible way to die ... Death had never been
more arbitrary, nor any crime more wicked.
The truth about Flight 103 will probably never be known
in all its particulars. Too many people have tampered with the evidence. Too many people
have lied about it or stayed silent. Too much remains hidden behind the cloak of national
security and legal privilege . . . But if the whole truth is never likely to be known,
enough of it has emerged from the fog of lies and evasion to point a finger at those
responsible . . .
At first the answer seemed obvious, not least to the American
and British authorities: the Iranians had commissioned a Palestinian terrorist cell to
commit the atrocity in revenge for the shooting down of an Iranian airbus in the Gulf. But
as the years went by, so Western governments began to blame the Libyans. Why? And with
what justification?
Lester Coleman tells a shocking story. A former employee of
the American Defense Intelligence Agency, he describes a dangerous web of connections
between the West and Middle Eastern organizations and a controlled drug run from Beirut to
the States that went horribly wrong.
'For daring to contradict the US government's line that Libya
was entirely responsible for the Lockerbie disaster, in which 270 people died, Mr Coleman
and his family have suffered a fate which reads like a spy novel'
-- Con Coughlin in the Sunday Telegraph
'[Coleman's] story is powerful enough to be taken extremely
seriously ... If [Goddard] and Coleman are telling even half the truth, they have lifted
the edge of the veil on one of the nastiest and most deceitful political corruptions of
modern times'
-- Paul Foot in the London Review of Books
'It convinces me that the events following the destruction of
PanAm 103 over Lockerbie had a great deal to do with American raison d'etat... The
US Congress ... should be asked for some refutation of Coleman's apparently inside
allegations'
-- Tam Dalyell, MP in a letter to the Scotsman
