The book may be on the shelves now...does anyone know if it is stocked...but who would want to buy it...its totally out of date...a different case when the mccanns were arguidos
Some copies are still no doubt still on sale.
I'm not sure that that is still the issue. It was apparently a best-seller, snatched off the shelves, according to "sources close to Amaral", just after the case had been shelved, but at a time when the serious press was only just wading through the files for themselves. He himself said that he was overwhelmed by the amount of media interviews that he had to attend.
I still think that he could have written his book in a different way and it would have still made for interesting reading. Whoever encouraged him in the direction that he took, if he was not alone in making that decision, may have had a short-sighted financial perspective. He could have just stopped with his book, but he didn't. There were umpteen promo interviews, plus the "documentary", guest appearances on docile daytime chat shows, a column in CdaM, and numerous interviews / appearances up until quite recently.
That said, potential damage may seem less relevant NOW than several years ago, but that might be with the hindsight of 5-6 years, the availability of documents in the files beyond his "understanding" during his mere 5 months on the case and the reopening of the investigation (both in PT and the UK). This defamation case has been dragging on for years and there is currently no update on it.
However, there are even some posters on here who believe that whatever Amaral has ever written or said is all anyone needs to know in order to inform themselves about the case. The legend of someone who clearly didn't even understand the forensics of the case seems to be beyond question. In the meantime, there is still a missing little girl, and other traumatic incidents involving other children, some of whom may have disappeared without an adequate investigation.
