Tyndale's eighth installment in its wildly successful Left Behind series, The Mark by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, landed on our trade paperback chart last week with one million copies in print for that edition and 2.7 million for the mass market version. October 30 is the laydown date for book #9, Desecration, and the announced first printing is 2.8 million copies—matching the figure that often launches a John Grisham blockbuster.

With reporting by Dick Donahue.