Introduction: The world's fastest-growing religion -- I: The founder -- Dianetics -- The franchised faith -- II: The bridge to total freedom -- Travels with the commodore -- Over the rainbow -- DM -- Power is assumed -- III: Lisa -- Flag -- Seventeen days -- The greatest good -- IV: The celebrity strategy -- The seduction of Tom Cruise -- The bubble -- Int -- Exodus -- Epilogue: What is true for you

Reitman offers the first full, journalistic history of the Church of Scientology, in an even-handed account that at last establishes the astonishing truth about the controversial religion. She traces Scientology's development from the birth of Dianetics through to the present day