Who actually believes Amaral didn’t know in advance that the book was going to be huge as claimed by G-Unit? This article rather puts it into context - his publisher had an initial print run of 40,000 copies.
A copper without shame: Maddie's top detective blames everyone but himself
21:10, 25 July 2008
By Richard Pendlebury for the Daily Mail
El Corte Ingles is Lisbon's grandest department store. The name loosely translates as 'The English Style', though 'corte' can also mean a cut, as from a knife.
Perhaps the ambiguity amused super sleuth Goncalo Amaral, for this was the location he chose on Thursday evening to launch the 'confidencial' inside story of his most sensational case: the mystery of Madeleine McCann.
The portly detective sat before a table piled high with his newly published paperback memoir of the investigation, ready to be signed and sold at £10 apiece. Hundreds of local people had queued to see him.
Enlarge Portugal's former top investigator Goncalo Amaral poses with his book entitled 'Maddie:The Truth about the Lie'
Portugal's former top investigator Goncalo Amaral poses with his book entitled 'Maddie:The Truth about the Lie'
As the officer in charge of the hunt for Madeleine from the night she vanished until he was fired from the case last October, Amaral, 48, presided over the shredding of the reputation of the Portuguese CID.
With a perjury charge still hanging over him, connected to an alleged assault in a separate missing-child case, he has just taken early retirement to publish his book.
'I want to clear my name,' he says in the blurb. To this end, 40,000 copies of Maddie: A Verdade Da Mentira (The Truth Of The Lie) are to be printed in Portuguese alone. An English translation is being arranged, and lucrative international rights are being neglotiated.