I'm not gloating, simply amused by your obvious put-outness. It must perplex you that, despite your best efforts to make Summers & Swan see things your way (and I assume that was why you engaged them in correspondence) they decided instead to write a book of "porkies" instead. How do you get your head round that, I wonder? I have no problem with S & S writing a professional and well-researched book on any subject and making money from it, as long as it is as accurate as it can be and causes no further distress to those involved.
My correspondence with Mr Summers began sometime after the final draughts of Looking for Madeleine had been submitted and my aim was never to change his mind strange as that may seem. From what I have seen the book seems to contain little fresh research, no input from the main protagonists nor, it would seem, any government body. Of course I could be wrong and Mr Summers has indeed turned up some never before seen evidence that exonerates the McCanns but somehow I doubt it.
I am surprised however that you approve of Mr Summers making money from Madeleine's plight seeing as you have long castigated any other author who has done the self same thing but I'm sure as long as the McCanns aren't seen as the guilty party you wouldn't bat an eyelid if Mr Summers had produced a Madeleine doll which pleaded ' mummy why didn't you come when Sean and I cried' when you pressed her stomach.
For all apologist's sakes I just pray that Madeleine's small body is not concealed in some lonely isolated spot, put there to hide her parent's shame because if so I don't know how you will live with yourself. I know I couldn't.
