It’s a wonderful number to have, though, I understand some of it is because of pirated copies.” When I was in India, the papers told me some 50 million people in India have read it. A 100 million people have read Kane and Abel. “It’s now the eleventh most successful novel in history, one behind To Kill A Mockingbird (by Harper Lee), and one ahead of War and Peace (by Leo Tolstoy). That’s more than the entire population of Malaysia or Peru. On its 121st reprint, the book has sold some 32,700,000 copies. Forty years later, Kane and Abel continues its dream run, selling 2,50,000 copies a year. Kane and Abel sold a million copies in the first week itself.
“And the whole of my life changed overnight,” Archer recalled. But it sold 3,000 copies in the first year,” the master storyteller told me back in 2011 during our first meeting in Kolkata. “After I wrote Not a Penny More…, I thought, like everyone else who has written a book, that it’s going to be an instant best seller. He sat down and wrote a thriller, Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less, his very first book. OL1807144W Page_number_confidence 94.86 Pages 566 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210731105729 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 670 Scandate 20210729053815 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780330509688 Tts_version 4.In the mid-1970s, Jeffrey Archer was staring at bankruptcy, having lost heavily to a fraudulent investment company. OL28145783M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:00:40 Boxid IA40198416 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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