Penguin published Deborah Lipstadt's book "Denying the Holocaust", which accused David Irving of Holocaust denial. Irving sued Lipstadt and Penguin for libel in 1998 but lost in a much publicised court case. Other titles published by Penguin which gained media attention, and controversy, include "Massacre" by Siné, "Spycatcher", which was suppressed in the UK by the government for a time, and "The Satanic Verses", leading to its author Salman Rushdie having to go into hiding for some years after Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a "Fatwā", an edict amounting to a sentence of death against him.