Hachette has withdrawn a policeman's memoir due to accuracy concerns. Should publishers do more fact checking?

  • Written by: Katherine Day, Lecturer, Publishing, The University of Melbourne
Hachette has withdrawn a policeman's memoir due to accuracy concerns. Should publishers do more fact checking?Diego Fedele/AAP

Australian publisher Hachette has withdrawn from publication the memoir of a retired police officer, after concerns were raised about its accuracy. Christophe Glasl spent 16 years in Victoria Police before writing his tell-all memoir, Special Operations Group, named after the elite force he was a member of for four years.

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