the unbreakable miss lovely by tony ortega

I can attest that Tony does not exaggerate in this book. I only want to add my 2 cents as an eye witness from the periphery (I was a naïve kid sort of sipping the laced Scientology Kool Aid in the late sixties and seventies) to many of the events written about here and acquainted with many of the people named. Deserves all the plaudits already in these reviews. Silvertail bought world rights directly from the author and will publish in paperback and ebook in May 2015 in the US and the UK.Ī fascinating read by an excellent writer-but so much more. Ortega appears in Alex Gibney’s 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. 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. This is an outstanding work of investigative authorship by a very fine journalist and I’m delighted Silvertail is to be his publisher.” Tony has done a wonderful job with the narrative – the story reads like a thriller. 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. 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. Ron Hubbard, back into print for the first time in 27 years. Silvertail Books previously published BBC journalist John Sweeney’s book, The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology, and last year brought Russell Miller’s landmark biography of Scientology’s founder, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. 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 Scientology’s revenge. His sources include witnesses to Cooper’s harassment and, in a few cases, people who took part in it.

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 Scientology’s secrets. The story of the life of author Paulette Cooper, the most famous victim of the Church of Scientology’s notorious and ruthless ‘Fair Game’ retaliation schemes.

The unbreakable miss lovely by tony ortega