Tom Cruise: Unauthorized Tom Cruise: Unauthorized Tom Cruise: Unauthorized is a non-fiction biographical book about Tom Cruise, written by Wensley Clarkson. The book was published by Hastings House in 1998. The book discusses Tom Cruise's early life, his rise as an actor, involvement with Scientology, and past relationships with Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman. The book ended during the filming of "Eyes Wide Shut". In 2003, Wensley Clarkson wrote another biography of Cruise, entitled: "Cruise Control". Tom Cruise was interviewed on "Larry King Live" about that book, and stated: "Well, you can tell this guy doesn't know me." After Tom Cruise's publicists discovered
Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography he met Holmes, and Vergara felt "she had been deliberately targeted not only as a possible bride for Tom, but as a high-profile Scientology recruit who would be an alluring figurehead for a future recruitment drive in Latin America." Morton asserts in the book that Cruise is the "de facto second-in-charge" in the Church of Scientology. When asked by the "Associated Press" what evidence he had about this, Morton stated "Scientology would be a shadow of what it is today if it had not been for the involvement of Tom Cruise. He has been the poster boy. More than that,