Derailed

Advertising director Charles Schine is just another New York commuter, regularly catching the 8.43 to work. But the day he misses his train is the day that changes his life. Catching the 9.05 instead, he can't help but be drawn by the sight of the person opposite. Charles has never cheated on his wife in eighteen years of marriage. But then Charles has never met anyone like Lucinda Harris before. Charming, beautiful and a seductively good listener, Charles finds himself instantly attracted. And though Lucinda is married too, it is immediately apparent that the feeling is mutual. Their journeys into work become lunch dates, which become cocktails and eventually lead to a rented room in a seedy hotel. They both know the risks they are taking, but not in their worst nightmares could they foresee what is to follow. Suddenly their temptation turns horrifically sour, and their illicit liaison becomes caught up in something bigger, more dangerous, more brutally violent. Unable to talk to his partner or the police, Charles finds himself trapped in a world of dark conspiracy and psychological games. Somehow he's got to find a way to fight back, or his entire life will be spectacularly derailed for good.

Literature & Fiction

JAMES SIEGEL

Contemporary

Clearway Logistics Phase 7-9

Paul and Joanna Breibard, childless Manhattan professionals, travel to Colombia to adopt a baby, but are kidnapped by left-wing militia who make an offer they can't refuse: Paul must swallow 36 condoms stuffed with cocaine and deliver the contraband to a contact in New Jersey within 18 hours; if he fails, Joanna and the baby will die. But in New Jersey, Paul finds a burned-out shell of a house at the contact's address. For help, he contacts Miles Goldstein, the Orthodox Jewish lawyer who arranged the adoption, and when a further delivery attempt ends in gunplay, Paul and Miles turn to Moshe Skolnick, a Russian mobster; later, a DEA agent steps in. Meanwhile, Joanna is held hostage in a country house whose walls are stained with blood. Siegel keeps tension at a steady high throughout, in part by employing short chapters and paragraphs à la James Patterson. He makes great use of local color, not only of the easily exotic Colombian settings but also of the no less unusual Brooklyn Jewish and Russian enclaves where Paul finds himself

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Little, Brown Book Group

Deceit

Genre Fiction

SPHERE

DESCRIPTION: From the bestselling author of Derailed comes the adrenaline-charged story of one man who must be-tray everything he believes in to save his family. Paul and Joanna desperately want to have children, but their failure to conceive almost ends their marriage. Instead, they decide to adopt and arrange a trip to Colombia to bring home a baby girl. Joelle is everything they've hoped for. To help them ease into parenthood, a nanny has been sent. When they return one night, they discover to their horror that the baby waiting for them isn't Joelle. Suddenly, they're taken prisoner and handed an ultimatum: Either Paul transports millions in cocaine to a location in the US within l8 hours, or his wife and daughter will be killed. The decision seems obvious--yet the outcome will be anything but.

Detour

Time Warner Paperbacks*

Detour And Derailed

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Epitaph: A Novel

MYSTERIOUS PRESS

Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night

Featuring North America's foremost thriller authors,Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories everpublished. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspensein all its guises are thirty-two of the most criticallyacclaimed and award-winning names in the business.From the signature characters that made such authorsas David Morrell and John Lescroart famous, to four ofthe hottest new voices in the genre, this blockbuster willtantalize and terrify. Lock the doors, draw the shades, pull up the covers andbe prepared for Thriller to keep you up all night.

JAMES GRIPPANDO

J.A. Konrath

Heather, Graham

United States

MIRA

Central Park, New York. It was the small girl chasing a pink balloon that had given Paul and Joanna the idea; to end five years of failing to conceive, and to adopt. Which is why they are travelling to the Santa Regina orphanage in Columbia, to meet their new daughter, Joelle. It is meant to be a new beginning in their lives. But it is not the new beginning they were expecting. Columbia is a dangerous place, particularly for a foreigner with a wife and daughter to protect. Paul would do anything for Joanna, and now he is going to have to. He's got eighteen hours to get a deadly consignment to an address in New York. He dare not be late. He dare not dial 911. Because if the delivery doesn't arrive, he'll never see his newly created family ever again ...

Detour (Lib)(CD)

Thrillers & Suspense

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It looks like just another car crash: a head-on collision on a lonely stretch of desert highway that leaves one driver dead.  Yet Tom Valle, the local newspaperman assigned to the story, is damned good at spotting lies.  He should know--once a star reporter at America's most prestigious daily, he was disgraced after being caught spinning columns of lies and exiled to the smallest town paper that would have him. Seeking personal redemption and the resurrection of his career, Valle investigates a trail of cover-up, fraud, and murder stretching back for decades.  But the path of corruption is so dark, Valle wonders if this story will redeem him, or kill him.

A New York Times Bestselling Author A Featured Alternate of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Doubleday Book Club, Literary Guild and Mystery Guild From the bestselling author of Derailed comes the adrenaline-charged story of one man who must betray everything he believes in to save his family. Paul and Joanna desperately want to have children, but their failure to conceive almost ends their marriage. They decide to adopt, and travel to Colombia to bring home a baby girl. But something is terribly wrong . . . Once again, James Siegel has written a brilliant thriller of a "normal" family in the throes of an endless nightmare.

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