When you first pick up a copy of OJ's book, you immediately think the title is I Did It. The If is shaded a very dark grey, barely visible against a black background and a picture of OJ Simpson.

It's the first sign that the weird saga of Simpson and the infamous murders which transfixed the world over 13 years ago is still rolling on - but, this time, Simpson has been out-manoeuvred.

Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were found brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California; Simpson was found not guilty in one of the most widely followed murder trials of all time; he was later found liable for the death of Goldman in a civil case taken by the Goldman family.

Simpson was ordered to pay US$19 million to the Goldmans in damages but avoided doing so by never paying it and moving to Florida where state law safeguards his assets and income. So the civil judgement - which cannot award jail time - has gone on accruing interest, until the family are now owned US$38m.

To gain financial security for his children Sydney and Justin - who continued to live with him - he decided to write a book, supposedly a hypothetical account of the night of the killings . It was originally titled If I Did It, Here's How It Happened.

It is now called If I Did It, The Book That Rupert Murdoch Pulped, Why OJ Simpson's Confession Of The Killer Must Not Remain a Secret.

Simpson's name does not appear anywhere as an author, even though he has approved every word of it, and if you look at the title on the spine of the book, it reads I Did It, with a photo of Simpson and, in small type, The Goldman family on the spine.

That's because news that Simpson was preparing to profit from the murders ignited debate in the US and the Goldmans and the Brown families fought hard to stop publication.

They succeeded. The book was pulped by Rupert Murdoch who, as head of News Corp owned the original publishers, and felt the public outcry was counter-productive.

But, when Murdoch pulled the book from publication, the Goldman family stepped in, winning control of the book after court action hinging around the unpaid monies owed by Simpson. The Goldmans then decided to publish the book as, they said at the time, they realised it was more of a confession than a murder manual.

Ron's father Fred says: "He [Simpson] has an excuse for everything. Anyone who reads this book will see that he is trying to tell people that he is not to blame; that everyone is to blame; that in some bizarre way Nicole Brown was to blame for her own death.

"But what he doesn't realise is that by expressing himself this way, he shows what a monster he is; he exposes himself. He has always needed to be centre of attention and always will be," said Goldman. "He knows better than anyone else and he has to prove that he knows better to everyone else and he has to be the focus of attention, even to the extent of painting himself as a murderer."