Prosecutor Keyes rejected Daniels'story " as a tissue of lies " and cut her loose with a stern rebuke to anyone else attempting such a fraud would be exposed by his office . " Criticism erupted and a news columnist wrote:
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In " Mussolini : His Part in My Downfall ", having been stung by a critic who called the biographies unreliable, Milligan wrote, " I wish the reader to know that he is not reading a tissue of lies and fancies, it all " really happened " ."
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Finally, the 13 September edition of the " Daily Mail " began a campaign against " The Monocled Mutineer ", branding it " a tissue of lies ", while the following day's " Mail on Sunday " derided the original book that the series had been adapted from.
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David Carr in the " New York Times " wrote that Davies was " . . . just the kind of person you don't want to have on your tail . . . He wages a ground war to get at the truth, which comes less in one single aha moment than as a slow drip of facts penetrating a tissue of lies.
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Losing patience with criticism about his veracity, the preface reads, " I ve spent a fortune on beer and dinners interviewing my old Battery mates, and phone calls to those overseas ran into over a hundred pounds . " Also, " I wish the reader to know that he is not reading a tissue of lies and fancies, it all " really happened " . " ( Following this book Milligan was even more upset, by comments from the people he wrote about.
