In the wake of Scientology leader David Miscavige’s father signing a book deal with St. Martin’s Press on Wednesday, the embattled church is hitting back against claims of surveillance, intimidation and callous indifference at the center of the forthcoming tell-all.
Ronald Miscavige Sr. is penning a memoir tentatively titled “If He Dies, He Dies,” which refers to a 2013 incident in which the senior Miscavige was on the verge of a heart attack outside his Florida home when he encountered private investigators allegedly hired by his son. According to one of the investigators in a Los Angeles Time expose published in April, David Miscavige instructed the PIs not to intervene, telling them: “If it was Ron’s time to die, to let him die.”