Happily back from a wonderful trip to England for the UK launch. I couldn't have been more impressed with the professionalism and enthusiasm of the entire Random House/Cornerstone group. Their posters for the book were all over the place on British Rail and London Transport and all the bookstores I visited for signings etc. had copies on prominent display.

The efforts seem to be bearing fruit. In its first week, the book hit the Times of London bestseller list and there was a nice blurb in the Times Saturday Review books pages!

For thrillers, the supermarket channels are really important, and at ASDA (Wal-Mart) it debuted at the #4 position for all books. Embarrassingly enough, the ASDA books buyer has stickered all their copies as "Better than DaVinci Code." I don't know about that, but I don't hate the way it sounds.