Bookseller.com reports that Charlie Higson’s fourth Young Bond novel Hurricane Gold has sold 55,641 copies in hardcover and, along with the latest Alex Rider novel, Snakehead, is driving children's sales this Christmas.
Hurricane Gold was the first Young Bond novel to be published in the UK as a hardcover. Thus far, the Young Bond novels have sold over a half-million copies in the UK and have been translated into 23 languages.
Hurricane Gold will be published in paperback on May 28, 2008. Charlie is currently working on the fifth and final Young Bond novel (working title The Shadow War) to be released in hardcover on September 4, 2008.
