However, small publisher Silvertail Books reprinted the book and also made it available electronically. Since the book's first and only printing of 14,000 copies, "Bare-Faced Messiah," hasn't been available in the U.S. "'Our legal costs are in excess of $1 million, and we have to give up.'" The case reached up to the Supreme Court, but then, "My publisher said, 'Look, Russell, we simply cannot go on,'" Miller recounts. The Church said that Miller's use of unpublished writings by Hubbard - including his childhood diaries - violated copyright law. "But unfortunately in the United States, if you'll forgive me for saying so, a ferocious litigant with unlimited sums of money can keep the case going for a very long time." "At no time did anyone challenge the veracity of what I had written," says author Russell Miller. except for the U.S., where the Church of Scientology vigorously fought its publication on technical grounds. The biography was well-received around the world. "The Bare-Faced Messiah," was first published in 1987. after being effectively banned for the past 27 years. Ron Hubbard is finally available in the U.S. A book critical of Scientology's founder L.
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