Summers & Swan - A new book - Looking For Madeleine

[Alfred R Jones]

not surprising as it seems the Portuguese police cover up these incidents to protect tourism

And if these sex attacks have all been made up to support the McCanns and paint Portugal in a bad light then let's hear it from Portugal's equivalent of Summers and Swann, doing their own objective book on the subject and uncovering all these supposed lies - I won't hold my breath for that one, however. 

[stephen25000]

And if these sex attacks have all been made up to support the McCanns and paint Portugal in a bad light then let's hear it from Portugal's equivalent of Summers and Swann, doing their own objective book on the subject and uncovering all these supposed lies - I won't hold my breath for that one, however.

and Summers and Swann are objective ???


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[John]

Looks like the new book is being published by French firm Hachette Livre using their relatively recently acquired vehicle Headline Publishing.  This group is ranked second in the UK only to the Random House Group publishers which has Kate McCann's book 'Madeleine' amongst its titles.

[faithlilly]

I do hope Mr Summers includes a reference to your correspondence with him in his book.   Do you think this book was writtne without carrying out any interviews with anyone involved in the case at all?

Seems he interviewed a friend of a friend who alleged they caught a swarthy charity worker staring over her shoulder at her daughter ! You just can't argue with that depth of research can you Alfred !

[stephen25000]

Seems he interviewed a friend of a friend who alleged they caught a swarthy charity worker staring over her shoulder at her daughter ! You just can't argue with that depth of research can you Alfred !

Let's face it, it's brilliant research. 

[faithlilly]

And if these sex attacks have all been made up to support the McCanns and paint Portugal in a bad light then let's hear it from Portugal's equivalent of Summers and Swann, doing their own objective book on the subject and uncovering all these supposed lies - I won't hold my breath for that one, however.

We must not forget the Mr Summer thought at one point in time thought that Tsar Nicholas the Second's family had escaped the massacre in the Impatiev House. That book was also intensively researched but that didn't stop his conclusions being wrong.

Sadly I fear Summers is no more correct about Madeleine's disappearance as he was about Maria, Olga, Titannia and Anastasia's

[Alfred R Jones]

Seems he interviewed a friend of a friend who alleged they caught a swarthy charity worker staring over her shoulder at her daughter ! You just can't argue with that depth of research can you Alfred !

So, that's the extent of the in depth interviews is it?  And you know this presumably because you've had an advance copy of the book, right?

[Alfred R Jones]

We must not forget the Mr Summer thought at one point in time thought that Tsar Nicholas the Second's family had escaped the massacre in the Impatiev House. That book was also intensively researched but that didn't stop his conclusions being wrong.

Sadly I fear Summers is no more correct about Madeleine's disappearance as he was about Maria, Olga, Titannia and Anastasia's

So - the book on the Romanovs was intensively researched, but the book about Madeleine's disappearance is simply a re-hash of newspaper articles with just the one interview (with a friend of a friend) - and both are wrong anyway, so nothing to see here, let's all concentrate on reading someone who REALLY knows what's what, like Blacksmith, eh?  Hilarious!

[faithlilly]

So - the book on the Romanovs was intensively researched, but the book about Madeleine's disappearance is simply a re-hash of newspaper articles with just the one interview (with a friend of a friend) - and both are wrong anyway, so nothing to see here, let's all concentrate on reading someone who REALLY knows what's what, like Blacksmith, eh?  Hilarious!

There is no one would be more happy than me to know that Summers has actually done as much research into this case as he claims. Unfortunately if the extracts we have already been privy to is indicative of the rest of the book I'm afraid my hopes may well be in vain.

[Alfred R Jones]

There is no one would be more happy than me to know that Summers has actually done as much research into this case as he claims. Unfortunately if the extracts we have already been privy to is indicative of the rest of the book I'm afraid my hopes may well be in vain.

How come it's only Summers who gets a mention here?  What about Swann?  Please be honest Faithlilly, the only hopes you have been entertaining is that the book would have a McCann-sceptic flavour to it. The fact that it doesn't means it's crap as far as you're concerned no matter how much time and effort went into research and interviews. 

[Alfred R Jones]

Summers and Swann spent several years researching 9/11 and then writing a book about it in which they debunk the conspiracy theorists who believe the US Govt and the Israelis engineered the whole thing. Were they wrong about that too - oh, wait don't answer that, I forgot for a moment I was on a forum full of [ censored word ]s...

[faithlilly]

How come it's only Summers who gets a mention here?  What about Swann?  Please be honest Faithlilly, the only hopes you have been entertaining is that the book would have a McCann-sceptic flavour to it. The fact that it doesn't means it's crap as far as you're concerned no matter how much time and effort went into research and interviews.

Tell me Alfred, how thorough do you think Summers and Swann's research has been and how solid their conclusions when they haven't interviewed the McCanns or had any input from the Foreign Office ?

[stephen25000]

So - the book on the Romanovs was intensively researched, but the book about Madeleine's disappearance is simply a re-hash of newspaper articles with just the one interview (with a friend of a friend) - and both are wrong anyway, so nothing to see here, let's all concentrate on reading someone who REALLY knows what's what, like Blacksmith, eh?  Hilarious!

Your post is indeed hilarious and quite desperate.

[Alfred R Jones]

Tell me Alfred, how thorough do you think Summers and Swann's research has been and how solid their conclusions when they haven't interviewed the McCanns or had any input from the Foreign Office ?

I haven't read the book so I can't comment on its thoroughness.  I do know however that it is possible to write a very well researched book on a subject without actually speaking to every single person involved.  This book is about Madeleine's disappearance, not the McCanns per se. Using your logic, none of you armchair sleuths have anything worthwhile to say on the subject either, seeing as how none of you has interviewed the McCanns personally, to the best of my knowledge.

[faithlilly]

Summers and Swann spent several years researching 9/11 and then writing a book about it in which they debunk the conspiracy theorists who believe the US Govt and the Israelis engineered the whole thing. Were they wrong about that too - oh, wait don't answer that, I forgot for a moment I was on a forum full of [ censored word ]s...

I have no idea if they were wrong.

What I do know however is that even though Summers conducted extensive research for his book the File on the Tsar his conclusions couldn't have been more wrong and there is always the chance he is wrong here too.