The approval of the mayor Adams seems to raise the sales of Kash Patel’s book

As mayor of New York City, Eric Adams faces the uncertain prospects for re -election this year. It should not go based on the plans, it may want to try your hand as a promoter of books.

Hours after the accusations of federal corruption against him were formally abandoned this month, the mayor closed a celebratory press conference of Connecting a book“Government gangster: the deep state, the truth and the battle for our democracy”, by Kash Patel, director of the FBI

Mr. Adams urged all New Yorkers to take a copy. And then he repeated that message at least three more times within 24 hours, including a popular podcast.

Readers seem to have listened.

In the week that includes the short Promotional Tour Pro Bono of Adams, US press sales for the “Government Gangsters” climbed to the stars almost 800 percent, from 228 to 2,019, according to Bookscan Circana.

More copies of Mr. Patel’s book sold between March 30 and April 5 than during his week Senate confirmation audition In January, when 745 print copies changed their hands. It is also most of the printed copies of the book sold in a week since October 2023, after it was published for the first time.

For the first time since it was published in September, the book appeared this week on “Best -selling wise list “debut at n. 11. The list includes books sold and preordained through Amazon and Audible. Also the book He arrived at n. 14 In the best-seller list of the New York Times non-fictionhis first appearance there.

“When a backlist book sees an increase in sales like this after it has been highlighted in the media, it is usually a key factor that guides sales growth,” said Brenna Connor, director and analyst in the sector of the approx.

The FBI refused to comment.

Mr. Patel’s book claims to tell the truth about the shady “Deep State”, a cabal of public employees guided ideologically lurking in the government rooms and visiting injustice on Innocenti – as Mr. Adams has implicit himself.

“I will encourage every New Yorker to read it”, he he said The day when his accusation was rejected: a move that the federal judge supervises the case clarified It was a procedural necessity and not a reflection on the mayor’s fault or innocence. “Read it and understand how we can never allow this to happen to another innocent American.”

On the same day, his appearance in an episode of “flagrant” was published on podcasting platforms e YouTubewhere the show has 1.88 million subscribers. Also there, Mr. Adams spread the Gospel of Mr. Patel, during a discussion on what he launched as an unduly powerful “permanent government”.

Andrew Schulz, one of the hosts of the Podcast, asked Mr. Adams if those who pursued him were part of the deep state, adding that he thought that the term was used too much.

“It is not used too much,” said Adams. “It’s real, brother!”

Starting from Friday, the episode had more than 400,000 views.

The day after his appearance, the mayor He told Fox 5 New York That he had read several books since the investigations of the Federal Government on him became public and who had distinguished themselves: “Kash’s book”. He delivered a similar message later that day during a press conference of the police department.

Kayla Mamelak Altus, press secretary of Mr. Adams, said that his comments reflect the conviction of the mayor who was “important for everyone to leave their silos and echo rooms and listen to different points of view, especially in these days”.

Adams has been accused by public ministries of taking bribes and consciously solicit illegal foreign donations that have been entrusted through straw donors. In return, they said, it facilitated the opening of a new Turkish consulate, despite an evaluation of the firefighters that the building “was not sure to be occupied”.

Mr. Adams has maintained his innocence and He often suggested that he was persecuted by the Biden Administration for his explicit criticisms of his border policies.

Manhattan ministries have refuted this statement. After the Trump administration moved to reject the mayor’s case in February, they suggested being engaged in a quid pro quo: exchange help with the deportation agenda of President Trump for the dismissal of his accusations.

Responrating the mayor, the judge Dale E. I rejected the idea that there was no impropriety of the prosecutor.

“There is no evidence – zero – that they had improper reasons,” he wrote according to him, suggesting instead that it was the agreement with the Trump administration that “affects an deal”.

But Mr. Adams, who hit Mr. Trump and others in his orbit, apparently taken comfort in the book of Mr. Patel, who advances the theory according to which the deep state is a “dangerous threat” for democracy.

In the book, Patel defines the investigation into the ties of the Trump campaign with Russia a “hoax” and suggests that the FBI has played a role in the instigation of January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol.

“The most terrifying thing is that the persecution of the political opponents of the establishment did not stop with the demonstrators who were at the Capitol that fateful day,” he wrote. “They soon expanded their flow rate to hit any American that he has ever dared to wear a sorceress hat.”

Susan C. BeachyResearch contribution.