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The book was published in 1998 -- I had a look -- and I myself immediately ran a book review in FR along with a tiny paid ad elsewhere. Maggie Gallagher very quickly added in a detail unknown to Mike Galster and the future Bloodhounds, from her friend Linda Tripp. Namely, that a day or two after Vince Foster's death, somebody called the White House legal office (not the main switchboard, so this guy was an insider) -- Linda took the call -- and said that what was bothering Foster was an issue of contaminated blood. Given that detail -- which Tripp later put on the public record in a deposition -- and evidence that Foster was about to break, we developed a strong suspicion that he got eliminated before he could talk about the Blood Trail. Iow, the deadly contaminated blood was the issue -- one unsuspected in all previous investigations and propaganda. This happens to be the way Mike portrayed it in Blood Trail -- but that was pure fiction, before he had the evidence from Tripp. Amazing.