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

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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."

Silva has been traveling the country to promote Moscow Rules, with a 30-city "Feel the Love" tour including 33 bookstore events in New York City, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Houston, Denver, Dallas, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Atlanta, Atlantic Beach, Vero Beach, Cocoa Beach, West Palm Beach, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Sarasota, Tamps, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego. He appeared on NBC's "The Today Show" live on publication date, and later that week was interviewed on MSNBC-TV's "Morning Joe"as well as MSNBC's evening news series "Road to the White House," and CNN-TV's popular "Glenn Beck Show." Between television appearances, Silva spoke at length about his book and its real-life parallels on national radio programs, including the "Hugh Hewitt Show" and the "Glenn Beck Show" - to which he was promptly invited back later in the week for another interview, this one devoted to the news about the Russian arms deal with Hugo Chavez-just the type of scenario that Daniel's novel predicted!

His latest event was last night at B&N Roseville in Minneapolis, where 125 people came out to hear him speak. After the talk, the audience was treated to a special surprise celebration of the news that Moscow Rules had hit #1, with coffee and cake for everyone.

View Penguin's photos from Daniel Silva's book tour for Moscow Rules

(Photo credits: Katie McKee)

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