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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of December 9, 1979

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TRIPLE
Ken Follett
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TRIPLE

by Ken Follett · Arbor House

2 wks at #1 · 14 on list

Net Dickstein, uno de los mejores agentes secretos israelíes, tiene una misión crucial: hacer desaparecer el barco que transporta el uranio que Egipto necesita para poseer la bomba atómica. Ciertamente una misión casi imposible, ya que egipcios y palestinos no están dispuestos a contemplar pasivamente cómo se esfuma su gran baza para inclinar a su favor el conflicto de Oriente Medio. Una novela electrizante a partir de un suceso real.

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THE ESTABLISHMENT
Howard Fast

THE ESTABLISHMENT

by Howard Fast · Houghton Mifflin

9 wks on list

The return of a classic novel by legendary author Howard Fast, acclaimed and bestselling author of the "Immigrants" saga, "Spartacus," and "Citizen Tom Paine." This is the simple and moving story of Jamie Stuart, of the 11th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line. Stuart, bound to a cobbler, had run away to join the army at seventeen. Now as a man of twenty-two, he is chosen one of the Committee of Sergeants who, on New Year's Day of 1781 -- when open revolt seemed the only way to justify the principles for which they fought -- organize and hold the Line together against its officers.

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THE LAST ENCHANTMENT
Mary Stewart
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THE LAST ENCHANTMENT

by Mary Stewart · Morrow

18 wks on list

When the rose-gold witch Morgause, King Arthur's half-sister, ensnares him into an incestuous liaison to her own evil ends, a fatal web of love, betrayal, and bloody vengeance is woven.

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SHADOW OF THE MOON
M.M. Kaye
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SHADOW OF THE MOON

by M.M. Kaye · St. Martin's Press

11 wks on list

M. M. Kaye, author of The Far Pavilions, sweeps her readers back to the vast, glittering, sunbaked continent of India. Shadow of the Moon is the story of Winter de Ballesteros, a beautiful English heiress who has come to India to be married. It is also the tale of Captain Alex Randall, her escort and protector, who knows that Winter's husband to be has become a debauched wreck of a man. When India bursts into flaming hatreds and bitter bloodshed during the dark days of the Mutiny, Alex and Winter are thrown unwillingly together in the brutal and urgent struggle for survival.

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THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG
Norman Mailler
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THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG

by Norman Mailler · Little, Brown

7 wks on list

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, a convicted killer becomes the first prisoner to be executed in the United States. The Executioner's Song follows the true story of cold-blooded murderer Gary Gilmore, who, after being tried and convicted, insisted on being executed for his crimes. To do so, he fought a system intent on keeping him alive long after it sentenced him to death. Norman Mailer tells Gilmore's story with impressive authority and compassion. The Executioner's Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks, right into the heart of American loneliness and violence–it is impossible to put down and difficult to forget.

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THE MATARESE CIRCLE
Robert Ludlum
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THE MATARESE CIRCLE

by Robert Ludlum · Richard Marek

38 wks on list

The Matarese Circle are the Corsican Brotherhood. Terrifying killers, their power could plunge the world into chaos and destruction within two years. Only two rival spies - and one mysterious woman - can stop them. Brandon Scofield, CIA, and the West's most professional assassin, and Vasili Taleniekov, former KGB, now wanted by the Politburo. They share a genius for espionage - and a life of terror and explosive violence. Sworn enemies, Scofield and Taleniekov have vowed to terminate each other, but now they must become allies. Because only they possess the brutal skills and ice-cold nerves vital to destroy an international circle of killers: the Matarese...

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THE FORMULA
Steve Shagan
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THE FORMULA

by Steve Shagan · Morrow

A police chief is murdered and a note among his papers leads to mysterious deaths, the Overworld of Big Oil and multinational cartels.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.