Surprise. Not.
TV newsman Bill O’Reilly’s latest book in his “Killing” series has debuted as in “instant No. 1” on several lists, giving him 16 top sellers in his writing career.
Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America debuted at the top on the New York Times bestseller list, the Wall Street Journal bestseller list, Publishers Weekly’s bestseller list, and the #1 nonfiction book on the USA Today bestseller list, according to publisher St. Martin’s Press.
And the 10th book in the series, co-authored with Martin Dugard, is already at No. 3 on Amazon.
In a recent Secrets story about the mob-focused book, O’Reilly said, “I’m very proud of all the ‘Killing’ books. This one, if you read this one, you’re going to know about organized crime. I did my job.”
The new book goes deeper than any “Godfather” movie, revealing the fecklessness of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the mob’s fingers in every aspect of life, and how the mafia has started to contract work out to others, such as Mexican drug cartels.
St. Martin’s said that the series has sold 18 million copies worldwide and held over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. They called the latest an “instant No. 1 bestselling book in America.”
