Today, we will be looking at the book sales from the week ending on March 3rd. Keep reading to see the best selling books of this week!
The data is pulled from Apple and will be a little different from the other best selling book lists out there. You can see the full list below!
Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List)
- 1. Three-Inch Teeth by C. J. Box (Penguin Publishing Group)
- 2. The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Publishing Group)
- 3. Dune by Frank Herbert (Penguin Publishing Group)
- 4. The Chaos Agent by Mark Greaney (Penguin Publishing Group)
- 5. The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager (Penguin Publishing Group)
- 6. First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston (Penguin Publishing Group)
- 7. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
- 8. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled Publishing, LLC)
- 9. The Secret by Andrew Child & Lee Child (Random House Publishing Group)
- 10. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled Publishing, LLC)
Top Paid Audiobooks (US Bestseller List)
- 1. Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering (Unabridged) by Joseph Nguyen (Audible)
- 2. The Women by Kristin Hannah (Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC)
- 3. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Unabridged) by James Clear (Penguin Random House, LLC)
- 4. Dune by Frank Herbert (Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC)
- 5. Burn Book (Unabridged) by Kara Swisher (Simon & Schuster Digital Sales…)
- 6. A Court of Thorns and Roses (Court of Thorns and Roses) by Sarah J. Maas (Recorded Books, Inc.)
- 7. First Lie Wins: A Novel (Unabridged) by Ashley Elston (Penguin Random House, LLC)
- 8. Three-Inch Teeth(Joe Pickett) by C. J. Box (Recorded Books, Inc.)
- 9. A Court of Mist and Fury(Court of Thorns and Roses) by Sarah J. Maas (Recorded Books, Inc.)
- 10. Iron Flame (Empyrean) by Rebecca Yarros (Recorded Books, Inc.)
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If you enjoy reading fact based espionage thrillers, of which there are only a handful of decent ones, do try reading Bill Fairclough’s Beyond Enkription. It is an enthralling unadulterated fact based autobiographical spy thriller and a super read as long as you don’t expect John le Carré’s delicate diction, sophisticated syntax and placid plots.
What is interesting is that this book is so different to any other espionage thrillers fact or fiction that I have ever read. It is extraordinarily memorable and unsurprisingly apparently mandatory reading in some countries’ intelligence agencies’ induction programs. Why?
Maybe because the book has been heralded by those who should know as “being up there with My Silent War by Kim Philby and No Other Choice by George Blake”; maybe because Bill Fairclough (the author) deviously dissects unusual topics, for example, by using real situations relating to how much agents are kept in the dark by their spy-masters and (surprisingly) vice versa; and/or maybe because he has survived literally dozens of death defying experiences including 20 plus attempted murders.
The action in Beyond Enkription is set in 1974 about a real maverick British accountant who worked in Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) in London, Nassau, Miami and Port au Prince. Initially in 1974 he unwittingly worked for MI5 and MI6 based in London infiltrating an organised crime gang. Later he worked knowingly for the CIA in the Americas. In subsequent books yet to be published (when employed by Citicorp, Barclays, Reuters and others) he continued to work for several intelligence agencies. Fairclough has been justifiably likened to a posh version of Harry Palmer aka Michael Caine in the films based on Len Deighton’s spy novels.
Beyond Enkription is a must read for espionage cognoscenti. Whatever you do, you must read some of the latest news articles (since August 2021) in TheBurlingtonFiles website before taking the plunge and getting stuck into Beyond Enkription. You’ll soon be immersed in a whole new world which you won’t want to exit. Intriguingly, the articles were released seven or more years after the book was published. TheBurlingtonFiles website itself is well worth a visit and don’t miss the articles about FaireSansDire. The website is a bit like a virtual espionage museum and refreshingly advert free.
Returning to the intense and electrifying thriller Beyond Enkription, it has had mainly five star reviews so don’t be put off by Chapter 1 if you are squeamish. You can always skip through the squeamish bits and just get the gist of what is going on in the first chapter. Mind you, infiltrating international state sponsored people and body part smuggling mobs isn’t a job for the squeamish! Thereafter don’t skip any of the text or you’ll lose the plots. The book is ever increasingly cerebral albeit pacy and action packed. Indeed, the twists and turns in the interwoven plots kept me guessing beyond the epilogue even on my second reading.
The characters were wholesome, well-developed and beguiling to the extent that you’ll probably end up loving those you hated ab initio, particularly Sara Burlington. The attention to detail added extra layers of authenticity to the narrative and above all else you can’t escape the realism. Unlike reading most spy thrillers, you will soon realise it actually happened but don’t trust a soul.