Anne Bomke, our intrepid international factotum (not her actual title) at the McBride Literary Agency, tells us that You Call the Shots hit several bestseller lists last week in Taiwan:

It was #9 on the KingStone Bookstore Weekly Bestselling List (Business and Finance) for the week of Nov. 12–18; and #11 on the Book.com.tw Bestselling list (Business and Finance) Taiwan’s largest online bookstore) as of Nov. 26.

It’s exciting, in sort of a weird way, to browse through a copy. You’ll go through several pages of Chinese characters, as obscure to me as nuclear physics (no, more so), and then suddenly see a word written in English for no reason I can discern: “GUTS” – “know-how” – “Cleveland Cavaliers” – “Anderson Coope 360 [sic]” – “Land Rover.”

I may just have to learn Chinese to find out how it ends.

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