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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of March 23, 1980

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PRINCESS DAISY
Judith Krantz
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SMILEY'S PEOPLE
John le Carré
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SMILEY'S PEOPLE

by John le Carré · Knopf

14 wks on list

Its an emergency, George. You remember Vladimir? George, are you awake? You remember the old General? The phone call that dragged George Smiley, acting Chief of the Circus, from his bed was a plea to return to active service. But only to bury the case, not to solve it. An old acquaintance shot dead on Hampstead Heath, an old woman in Paris promised the return of a daughter shell never see, a photograph taken in a Hamburg brothel - and George Smiley is called out of retirement ... SMILEYS PEOPLE has all the le Carr touches Sunday Telegraph

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PORTRAITS
Cynthia Freeman
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WHO'S ON FIRST
William F. Buckley Jr
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WHO'S ON FIRST

by William F. Buckley Jr · Doubleday

1 wks on list

Suspense: Blackford Oakes' new assignment is to delay a Soviet space shot.

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TRIPLE
Ken Follett
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TRIPLE

by Ken Follett · Arbor House

29 wks 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

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

by Norman Mailler · Little, Brown

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.

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