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At last – Going Clear is over here

Lawrence Wright’s astonishing exposé of Scientology, which appeared in the States in 2013, has finally found a brave British publisher

23 April 2016

9:00 AM

23 April 2016

9:00 AM

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief Lawrence Wright

Silvertail Books, pp.474, £15.99, ISBN: 9781909269408

At last! It has taken over two years, but a British publisher has summoned up the nerve to bring out Going Clear, an astonishing exposé of the Church of Scientology by Lawrence Wright of the New Yorker.

Wright — who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower, his investigation of 9/11 — is the journalistic equivalent of a virtuoso musician: he can race us through the most complicated narrative because he has done unimaginable amounts of homework.

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