Commodore's Messenger Book II: Riding Out The Storms with L. Ron Hubbard

by Janis Gillham Grady

This is the second installment of the unique and
extraordinary adventures of long-time insider
and survivor, Janis Gillham Grady. For years, she
worked as a personal assistant known as a “Commodore’s
Messenger” for Scientology’s elusive founder, L. Ron
Hubbard, who was recognized aboard his ships as “the
Commodore.” No books about Scientology compare to the
scope of Janis’ or for the meticulous detail, accuracy and
depth of insight that she reveals from the epicenter of the
Scientology movement.
Janis was born in Australia to Scientology “royalty,”
the youngest child of Peter F. Gillham, the founder of
internationally noted nutritional product “Natural Calm”,
and Yvonne Gillham-Jentz sch, founder of the Church of
Scientology’s Celebrity Centre. Janis’ stepfather is Heber
Jentz sch, known for many years as the President of the
Church of Scientology International, and its primary
spokesman.
This book picks up where Book One ended with Janis, at age
14, along with her older brother Peter and sister Terri, all
members of Scientology’s inner core, the Sea Organization.
Aboard the Scientology ship Apollo, Janis worked as one of
the fi rst four personal messengers of Scientology leader, L.
Ron Hubbard. She had a front-row seat as the ship sailed
between Spain, Portugal, and Morocco, and she was privy
to Hubbard’s att empts to ingratiate Scientology with the
Moroccan government as it faced att empted coups and
brutal crackdowns. As more and more ports denied entry to
the Apollo, Hubbard crossed the Atlantic to the somewhat
friendlier waters of the Caribbean, though still harassed by
numerous agencies including the U.S. State Department,
FBI, Interpol among others. This harrowing journey takes
you from October 1970 until October 1975, when L. Ron
Hubbard and Scientology headquarters moved from his
personal yacht to land in the United States.
Commodore’s Messenger: Riding Out the Storms is the
second volume of the trilogy that chronicles Janis Grady’s
epic journey and that of Scientology’s mysterious Sea
Organization.

Genres: Cults

594 pages, Paperback

Published August 22, 2018