Madeleine McCann: parents pain 'multiplied 100 times' by book of Portuguese police chief The McCanns say the former detective's claims in the book The Truth Of The Lie, including suggestions that they hid their daughter's body after she died in an accident and faked an abduction, damaged the hunt for Madeleine and exacerbated her family's anguish. If successful in the legal action, brought against him, his publisher, and the makers of the documentary, the family stands to gain around £1 million in damages. Mrs Cameron, whose voice cracked as she described the effect on her family by the publication of the book, said: "They were vilified in this book so their distress was multiplied 100 times. This pain was felt by all of their family because we still have a missing child and we knew that what is in there is not true.