Merci faux coup!

So Pakistan's Daily Times, where the dawn of Musharraf's memoirs is the hottest story to be had, had this story today tying Amazon's reduced price to coup rumors in Pakistan:

"Internet book seller Amazon has slashed the price of President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s upcoming biography, ‘In the line of fire’, from $28 to $16 after rumours that the president had serious heart troubles. Gen Musharraf was due in New York late Friday, but changed his plans and flew to Texas, where a rural newspaper reported that the president was in the east Texas town of Paris, and was due to undergo heart surgery. This, combined with a countrywide power breakdown and information blackout in Pakistan, sparked rumours that there had been a coup in Pakistan."

For the record, Pervez says his ticker is fine, that he just went to Texas for a checkup (or to check out Cindy Sheehan?), that the power incidentally went out for long than usual the other day, and he wasn't worried about becoming like Thai guy during his trip to N.Y.

Pervez's book does have a reduced price, but not sure what that has to do with heart/coup rumors. If he was about to be ousted, seems like a memoir called "In the Line of Fire" would sell quite well because the timing would rock. This being the first day of sales, he's at No. 19 on Amazon -- imagine how he could close that gap if Chavez had pitched his book at the U.N.!