Seven Days in May (novel)

Seven Days in May is an American political thriller novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II, first published in hardcover by Harper & Row in 1962.

The plot concerns an attempted military coup in the United States.

Reception
The book was a great success and was number one on The New York Times bestseller list for the weeks of November 18, 1962; December 2–9, 1962; and March 3, 1963. (The weeks of December 16 to February 24 were not listed because of the 1962–63 New York City newspaper strike.) It was adapted into a successful American movie, also named Seven Days in May, in 1964; a Soviet three-episode miniseries, named "The Conspiracy", in 1971; and a four-episode miniseries, named The Last Argument of Kings, in 1983.

Awards
The novel was nominated for the 1989 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.