Former Prime Minister of Britain Tony Blair has reportedly received something in the neighborhood of a $9 million advance from Random House on his upcoming memoirs.

That astounding figure places the polished Englishman just above former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who received $8.5 million for his bathtub inspired tome, and just beneath his old friend William Jefferson Clinton, who received $10 million (or, roughly, $1 million for each 100 pages) and will likely help to ease the pain of seeing a long, brilliant legacy irreparably tarnished by an ill-advised alliance with President George W. Bush.