David Anthony Yallop (27 January 1937 – 23 August 2018) was a British author who wrote chiefly about unsolved crimes.
In the 1970s, he contributed scripts for a number of British television shows, including Minder.
Reviewers, and the Roman Catholic Church, dismissed the book as groundless conspiracy theory.
The book made the New York Times Best Seller list for 15 weeks, was translated into multiple languages, and was repeatedly reprinted, selling over six million copies.
[1] In late 1989 he was sacked as a scriptwriter for EastEnders when he proposed killing some of the characters by means of an Irish Republican Army bomb.