How the little-known American saga Blackwater' sold almost two million novels in Europe

Why on Earth, then, was a French publisher dying to buy the rights four decades later? Perhaps Bordes was motivated by the motto of his own publishing house, Monsieur Toussaint Louverture: We're guided by the search for the surprising book the one that nobody expected and yet, once read, becomes obvious.

Today, the rest of French publishers have more than 1,150,000 reasons to curse themselves. This is the number of copies of Blackwater that have been sold in the country to-date. Along with 300,000 in Italy and 300,000 in Spain. The numbers keep rising.

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