Bill Myers (www.Billmyers.com) is a bestselling author and award-winning writer/director whose work has won sixty national and international awards. His books and videos have sold eight million copies and include The Seeing, Eli, The Voice, My Life as, Forbidden Doors, and McGee and Me.
Could eminent professor and scientist J W Heslop Harrison be guilty of an elaborate fraud involving the reported discovery of rare species of plants on the Isle of Rum? His colleagues in the 1940s thought so and one of them set out to prove it penning a sensational report that would have ruined the professor's life had it not leaked out. Instead it remained catalogued on some library shelf while the professor finished his career. Fifty years on, British documentary producer Sabbagh unearth the report and wondered about its authenticity and, if it was true, why? The result is the fascinating story of one of the strangest and longest standing cases of fraud in science, the so called 'Rum Affair'. Sabbagh's chatty, investigative book invites the reader along as he sorts out the story and investigates the mysteries of why a scientist turns to faking data. (Kirkus UK)