The controversial exposé they originally banned is now back on sale – with no changes to the disputed text.

The Terrorist Hunters had already been serialised in The Times newspaper and had sold nearly 800 copies in less than a week, when it was temporarily banned at the request of the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland.

High Court Judge, the Hon. Mr. Justice Tugendhat, who heard the case, recognised the importance of the book, stating “In my judgment the book aims to inform the public on matters of the greatest public interest, and it does so in a serious way”. He nevertheless agreed that further sales of the book should be delayed to ensure a section was not read by jurors in an ongoing court case and interpreted by them, rightly or not, as a reference to that case. 

The temporary injunction imposed by the Hon. Mr. Justice Tugendhat has now been lifted.

Author Andy Hayman comments “We submitted the book for vetting by MI5 of our own accord and agreed to more than a hundred changes that MI5 and the Crown Prosecution Service asked for.  Yet to our astonishment the CPS, via Baroness Scotland, called out a High Court Judge late one night to argue that the book be pulled.  Under the circumstances this left the judge with little choice but to stall sales temporarily.  We’re grateful the judge recognised the importance of the book and we are delighted it will be back on sale and accessible to the public again.’

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The Terrorist Hunters is the first definitive inside account of how the police are hunting a new and lethal threat, by the man in overall command of the UK’s national counter-terrorism offensive from 2005-2007. 

Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman, CBE, QPM, was in overall command of the UK’s national counter-terrorism offensive, at the centre of every major terrorist investigation – overt and covert – during the dramatic events from 2005 to 2007.

In this gripping account he sheds new light and unprecedented insights into:

• the 7^th July bombings
• the attempted bombings of 21^st July
• the tragic shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes
• the murder of Alexander Litvinenko
• key top-level crisis meetings with intelligence chiefs and political leaders
• the undercover world of modern day intelligence gathering

and responsibly reveals how international terrorists are chased, captured and convicted.

Hayman also, for the first time, gives a no-holds-barred analysis and criticism of the way politicians and law-enforcers tackle terrorism.  He outlines a radical blueprint for the future to better protect the public, not least in the run-up to the 2012 Olympic Games and beyond. 

Andy Hayman, CBE, QPM, joined the police service as a constable straight from school in 1978, quickly rising through the ranks with the Essex Police and then the Metropolitan Police in London.  He worked part-time to obtain a degree in Police Studies from Exeter University and a post-graduate diploma in Applied Criminology from Cambridge University.  He was promoted to Chief Constable of Norfolk before returning to the Met in 2005 to take up the post of Assistant Commissioner, Special Operations.  Based in New Scotland Yard, he was in overall charge of the Counter-terrorism Command and Special Branch and was the UK’s National Counter-Terrorism Co-ordinator, setting security strategies with heads of government and security chiefs in the UK and abroad.  He is now a writer and security consultant. 

Andy Hayman is available for interview.

Margaret Gilmore is a writer and broadcaster and senior research fellow specializing in homeland security with the Royal United Services Institute.  She was the BBC’s Home Affairs correspondent and reported man of the incidents covered in this book. 

For further information and interview requests please contact:

Patsy Irwin, Publicity Director, Transworld Publishers

Tel: 020 8231 6650/07970 450139

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