the project, however, took a different turn, and the resulting book, "the seduction of hillary rodham", proved to be largely sympathetic to hillary clinton, causing surprise within the publishing industry. having received the large advance and a tight one-year deadline from simon & schuster's then-conservatively focused free press subsidiary, brock was under tremendous pressure to produce another bestseller. however, the book contained no major scoops. in "blinded by the right", brock said that he had reached a turning point; he had thoroughly examined charges against the clintons, could not find any evidence of wrongdoing, and did not want to make any more misleading claims.