Simon & Schuster is recalling a book after its author found himself at the centre of a controversy. Morgan Jones’ The Embassy House is purported to be an eye-witness account of the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi last September, which resulted in the death of ambassador Chris Stevens.

The New York Times publishing reporter Julie Bosman states on Twitter that Simon & Schuster is suspending publication of the book and notifying booksellers to return copies. A S&S spokesperson tells Bosman the book was pulled “in light of information that was brought to our attention.” Amazon has already removed the Kindle version of the book from its store.

At the centre of the issue are inconsistencies in two different accounts of the incident by Jones, reported to be a pseudonym for a security contractor named Dylan Davies. In the book, Jones claims he was the first person to identify Stevens in a Benghazi hospital and that a doctor said the ambassador had been conscious when he arrived. However, an interview Davies gave on Oct. 27 to CBS’s 60 Minutes contradicts the account.

From Media Matters:

In Davies’ retelling, by the time he’d arrived to the hospital Stevens had already been declared dead despite the doctors’ efforts to resuscitate him. “He was brought in here unconscious,” Davies quotes the anonymous doctor as saying. “He was unconscious upon arrival. We tried to resuscitate him for thirty minutes, but he had inhaled too much smoke. We could not reach him. Finally, we had to give up and accept that he was gone.”

A New York Times article published this week reports that 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan says “The broadcast erred by failing to acknowledge that a book written by the interview subject was being published by a subsidiary of CBS.”

From The New York Times:

Threshold Editions, part of the Simon and Schuster unit of CBS, released a statement from Morgan Jones on Tuesday saying, “The account in my book is consistent with what I gave to the F.B.I. and U.S. authorities about what happened in Benghazi.”

CBS said that Jeffrey Fager, chairman of CBS News and executive producer of “60 Minutes,” said on Tuesday that he regretted not making the connection between Mr. Davies and CBS public.

The Embassy House was co-authored by war reporter and author Damien Lewis, not to be confused with the actor Damian Lewis, the actor who plays turned U.S. Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody on the show Homeland.