Derailed
Author: James Siegel
Translator: Pil-won Choi
Publisher: Bichae
467 pages | 210*140mm
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About This Book
From Publishers Weekly
There's an extraordinary amount of hype attached to this thriller,
from a rave letter in the galley by Warner head Laurence J. Kirshbaum to
an announced ad/ promo campaign of $500,000 and enthusiastic blurbs from
Christopher Reich and, notably, James Patterson. The buzz is warranted:
this story of a middle-class professional whose life goes incredibly,
criminally awry is one of the most exciting thrillers in years. And why
is a blurb from James Patterson notable? Because Siegel (Epitaph) seems
to have learned at his feet. Like Patterson, Siegel is an ad man (a
creative director at BBDO; and he, like Patterson, has created TV spots
for his book) who mixes first- and third-person narration and knows how
to reduce a thriller to its essence. Protagonist Charles Schine is also
a Manhattan ad man, married, with a diabetic teen daughter; troubles at
home and at work lead him to fall in lust with a sexy younger woman he
meets on his commuter train, and finally to a hotel assignation that
goes terribly wrong when an armed man bursts in, beats Charles and rapes
his date, then blackmails Charles for a staggering amount of money.
Charles tries to fight the blackmail by hiring muscle, a disastrous move
that gets him into potentially dire legal trouble, as does his agreeing
to participate in a company scam in a desperate bid to make back some of
the blackmail money-and all that just takes readers into the middle of
this terrific yarn, which will blindside them again and again with
shocking but plausible twists. With its clean prose, high-velocity
plotting and just the right amount of emotional shading darkening its
sharply drawn characters, this novel is the bomb.
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