The editor of a book on former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi denied the book is an attack on Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.

Political analyst James Chin said the book, which has yet to be published is an academic publication of Abdullah’s administration.

“This book is not an exposure or an attack on Mahathir. It is an academic book on administration as Prime Minister,” Chin said in an email to Astro Awani.

Chin, a political science lecturer in Sunway Campus Monash University, edited the book along with Bridget Welsh also a political science lecturer in Singapore Management University.

Chin also explained the book has not been completed and a news portal was written without reference to him and Welsh.

A news portal reported on Friday quoting sources that Abdullah will finally answer all allegations against him by Mahathir in a book that will be published after Chinese New Year.

The portal also reported that it would be the first time Abdullah would be Mahathir’s allegations since he starting serving as Prime Minister in 2003.