We're guessing this is one book that won't be on Tom Cruise's required reading list.
British author Andrew Morton has written an unauthorized biography of the actor that Cruise's lawyer, Bert Fields, called "a bunch of tired old lies about Tom and his religion."
Due out in the U.S. later this month and excerpted in the U.K.'s Daily Mail over the weekend, Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography contains a wealth of controversial claims, including the assertion that the actor is second in command within the Church of Scientology.
Morton also claims that Cruise has been given the mission of recruiting David and Victoria Beckham to his religion of choice.
"This is just riddled with falsehoods," Fields told E! News. "This man, Andrew Morton, never talked to any of the important people in Tom's life. You cannot even call this a legitimate biography."
Morton claims the Church has enormous influence over all aspects of Cruise's life, including his career decisions and personal relationships.
He writes that Nicole Kidman feared retribution by the Church if she spoke out against Scientology following her 2000 divorce from Cruise and worried that she would be blocked from seeing the couple's two adopted children.
In one of the book's more incendiary moments, Morton even draws a parallel between Suri, Cruise's 20-month-old daughter with Katie Holmes, and the film Rosemary's Baby, in which a young woman is impregnated by the devil. According to the author, some of Scientology's more ardent followers were convinced Holmes conceived using the frozen sperm of the religion's late founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
Fields called the passages related to Suri's conception "sick and bizarre."
"The man should be ashamed of himself, and so should his publisher," said Fields. "He pretends to be writing a biography without ever talking to anybody who has really known Tom for the past 30 years."
In a brief statement Monday, a spokesman for publisher St. Martin's Press said: "We stand by our book and our author."
Cruise is believed to be readying a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over the book once it hits shelves. Fields declined to comment on pending legal action but expressed confidence that Cruise could win the case.