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So the winner didn't take it all this week -- it took a hefty chunk. David Baldacci's third thriller, about a young single mom who gets embroiled in murder charges and a lottery scam, has 500,000 copies in print. But it's still waiting to score a movie deal a la his first, Absolute Power (in which Clint Eastwood starred last year), and his second, current paperback stronghold Total Control (which TriStar will whip into a CBS miniseries this spring). Judging from his titles, this former corporate lawyer seems intent on nothing less than complete world domination.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 COLD MOUNTAIN Charles Frazier, Atlantic Monthly, $24 26 2 CAT & MOUSE James Patterson, Little, Brown, $24.95 6 3 THE GHOST Danielle Steel, Delacorte, $25.95 6 4 A CERTAIN JUSTICE P.D. James, Knopf, $25 3 5 THE LETTER Richard Paul Evans, Simon & Schuster, $15.95 7 6 THE WINNER David Baldacci, Warner Vision, $25 2 7 ANOTHER CITY, NOT MY OWN Dominick Dunne, Crown, $25 5 8 THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS Arundhati Roy, Random House, $23 20 9 THE CHRISTMAS BOX Richard Paul Evans, Simon & Schuster, $14.95 18 10 COMANCHE MOON Larry McMurtry, Simon & Schuster, $28.50 8
NONFICTION
1 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL John Berendt, Random House, $25 149 2 JOY OF COOKING Irma Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker, Scribner, $30 6 3 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, Scribner, $24 65 4 THE DARK SIDE OF CAMELOT Seymour M. Hersh, Little, Brown, $26.95 5 5 CITIZEN SOLDIERS Stephen E. Ambrose, Simon & Schuster, $27.50 5 6 SIMPLE ABUNDANCE Sarah Ban Breathnach, Warner, $20 90 7 THE PERFECT STORM Sebastian Junger, Norton, $23.95 26 8 INTO THIN AIR Jon Krakauer, Villard, $24.95 34 9 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 8 10 DIRTY JOKES AND BEER Drew Carey, Hyperion, $22.95 9
MASS-MARKET PAPERBACKS
1 TOM CLANCY'S POWER PLAYS -- POLITIKA 5 Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg, Berkley, $7.50 2 M IS FOR MALICE Sue Grafton, Fawcett Crest, $7.99 2 3 TOTAL CONTROL David Baldacci, Warner Vision, $7.50 6 4 THE LIST Steve Martini, Jove, $7.50 5 5 AIRFRAME Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $7.99 10 6 THE RAINMAKER John Grisham, Dell, $7.99 4 7 JACK & JILL James Patterson, Warner Vision, $7.50 10 8 SEA SWEPT Nora Roberts, Jove, $7.50 1 9 SOLE SURVIVOR Dean Koontz, Ballantine, $7.99 6 10 KILL AND TELL Linda Howard, Pocket, $6.99 1
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
