sentences:  The books was published by Michael Korda at Simon & Schuster in 1980.The authors Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre were journalists—Collins having written for "Newsweek" and Lapierre for "Paris Match".According to Michael Korda, Charles Bluhdorn, founder of Gulf + Western which at the time was the parent company over Simon & Schuster and Paramount, became obsessed with the possibilities of the realities in the book.