Michael Jackson rehearses for the London concerts at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on June 23. (Kevin Mazur/AEG/Getty Images/Associated Press) Montreal-born author Ian Halperin's new book Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson has been snapped up by a major French publisher, which will distribute 100,000 copies of the unauthorized biography. In a stroke of synchronicity, the book, produced by Quebec's Transit Publishing, was already in the presses on the night Jackson died. It was timed to hit the shelves as Jackson was due to launch his London concert series. Pierre Turgeon, Transit's director, confirmed to the Globe and Mail his company had sold the rights to French giant Hachette Livre. Transit has already sold the U.S. rights to publisher Simon & Schuster and is in talks with a British company. Canadian readers... [read full story]
