In July 2011 it was announced that Watson and his co-author Martin Hickman, a journalist from The Independent, were writing a book dealing with the relationship between newspapers belonging to Rupert Murdoch's News International and senior British politicians and police officers.
2011年7月，沃特森宣布他和他的合著者独立报记者Martin Hickman正在撰写一部关于鲁伯特·默多克的《世界新闻报》和英国高级政治家、警察之间的关系的著作。