Dateline: above the garage in Portsmouth RI, 16 January 2005
Got five copies of the Japanese edition recently from my agency. The volume is much smaller, roughly half the mass of the U.S. edition. It also reads in reverse, or going from what we'd consider the back cover and proceedings backwards into the book (basically reading from right to left).
The Japanese publishers (Kondasha) asked to cut several sections from the book in order to keep the size within the norm for a good-selling book (Japanese like their books only so long), so I agree to having several biographical sections cut in whole rather than trying to nip and tuck here and there (seemed simpler). The sections cut were "Playing Jack Ryan" from Chapter 1, "The Manthorpe Curve" from Chapter 2, and "How I Learned to Think Horizontally" from Chapter 3. Also cut were the acknowledgments. So as far as the Japanese are concerned, Mark Warren didn't edit a single character!
Here are some images:
The cover.
The Map.
Sample pages from first chapter.
Author's note on inside back cover.
All in all, very cool to hold in your hand. I put it on a special book shelf with my personal U.S. edition copy, and the leather-bound one Neil Nyren gave me for Christmas.
Next up? The Turkish edition.
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