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Daniel Silva "Feels the Love" - Moscow Rules Debuts at #1 on The New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestseller List:

Daniel Silva signing copies of Moscow Rules, at Tattered Cover
in Denver on July 28th

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Silva is setting personal bests as his new Putnam novel, Moscow Rules, debuts at #1 on The New York Times hardcover fiction list for the week of August 10^th. Moscow Rules is Silva's first #1 New York Times bestseller. This is also the first time ever that Silva has held slots on both the hardcover and mass-market New York Times bestseller lists simultaneously. The Secret Servant (Signet) has been on the mass-market paperback list for the past five weeks, reaching as high as #6, also a new record for Silva.

Critics across the country have been praising Moscow Rules, the eighth novel featuring legendary art-restorer-cum-Israeli-secret-agent Gabriel Allon, ever since it landed in bookstores. Today's USA Today writes "Silva ‘Rules.'" The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says "put ‘Moscow Rules' atop your summer beach book list;" and the Houston Press calls the book "A fast-paced thriller with all the appropriate twists and turns." The Rocky Mountain News claims "Silva continues to provide some of the most exciting spy fiction since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bond," while the Chicago Sun-Times says: "Silva just gets better as the questions get harder."

Posted by Penguin Group USA on Thu, 07/31/2008 - 4:25pm. in

Thu, 07/31/2008

Endings by Danielle Younge-Ullman:

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On Monday I told you how everyone who reads Falling Under wants to talk about The Sex. I think it's fitting, on my final day here at the Penguin blog, to also discuss endings-in particular, endings of books and even more specifically, the ending of my book.

Because, hot on the heals of comments about The Sex, people want to talk about The Ending of Falling Under.

I wrote three other versions of the final few pages of the book, before deciding on the one that finally went to print (which was, by the way, very close to the ending I'd written on the very first draft). I wanted to get it right and I felt I'd built a certain world-view and hopefully a trust with readers, which the wrong ending could ruin or cheapen. I wanted, too, to let my protagonist, Mara, surprise readers the way she so often surprised me as I was writing. I wanted to leave her alive with possibility and with her future in her own hands.

Well...! in addition to strong reactions from people I know personally, here are a few things coming in from reviewers about The Ending: