PW: Hot Deals: Scribner's Tragedy and Triumphs

But that same week Scribner, along with Pocket, bid and eventually acquired U.S. hard/soft rights to John le Carre's international banking thriller Single &Single, which was shopped to other houses following the author's exodus from longtime publisher Knopf. Scribner, which made the deal with le Carre's lawyer Michael Rudell, will publish the book in March 1999 and there will be a simultaneous S&S audio. Sources told PW that offers for the book had topped $2.5 million.