'Derailed is not so much a novel, as an ingenious little machine that seizes you, intrigues you, titillates you, and finally cuts you loose, a bit bewildered but with a smile on your face... Derailed is popular fiction at its slickest and it should find a multitude of readers' --Washington Post

'A whopper of a story ... tautly written and cleverly plotted with plenty of roller-coaster turns that nicely contrast the blandness of suburban life with the dark underworld that Charles has entered' --USA Today

The day Charles Schine misses his regular New York train is the day that changes his life. Sitting opposite him on the next train is Lucinda Harris: charming, beautiful and a seductively good listener. And despite himself, despite being happily married, Charles is instantly attracted.Charles knows the risks he is taking, but not in his worst nightmares could he have foreseen what is to follow. Suddenly his temptation turns horrificaUy sour, and his illicit liaison becomes caught up in something bigger, more dangerous, more brutally violent. And unless he can find a way to fight back, his entire life will be spectacularly derailed for good...