The Waterlily

Blurb

Topaz is a Cold War suspense novel by Leon Uris, published in 1967 by McGraw-Hill. Topaz is one of only a handful of novels to have spent just one week at the number-one position on The New York Times Best Seller List for adult fiction, and was Uris's first New York Times number-one bestseller since Exodus in 1959. Early in its 52-week tenure on the list, Topaz broke two records in two weeks due to a large but brief spike in sales; those for largest positional jump to number-one and largest positional fall from number-one.