 "Live and Let Die" was published in the US in January 1955 by Macmillan; there was only one major change in the book, which was that the title of the fifth chapter was changed from "Nigger Heaven" to "Seventh Avenue".Sales in the US were poor, with only 5,000 copies sold in the first year of publication.Philip Day of "The Sunday Times" noted "How wincingly well Mr Fleming writes"; the reviewer for "The Times" thought that "[t]his is an ingenious affair, full of recondite knowledge and horrific spills and thrills—of slightly sadistic excitements also—though without the simple and bold design of its predecessor".