51.   Other lucrative book contracts followed.

52.   One focuses on his book contract with HarperCollins, owned by Rupert Murdoch, a businessman with billions at stake before Congress and federal agencies.

53.   Only after he had signed a book contract did he learn that the only biographer with access to the papers was her authorized one.

54.   Ovitz had previously advised Clancy on film and television deals but will now take over his representation completely, including negotiating book contracts.

55.   Random House argued that the authors already sold those rights in their original book contracts, so the rights belong to Random House, not RosettaBooks.

56.   Shays, however, was a strong defender of Gingrich during his ethics troubles over a multi-million dollar book contract.

57.   Several years later Jones landed a book contract with the University of Illinois Press.

58.   Still, lawyers say that few book contracts are complicated enough to be worth their time.

59.   State law prohibits jurors from entering into a contract or discussing a possible book contract until three months after a trial is concluded.

60.   That last item was one of the questions his book contract forbids him to answer, he said.