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基本信息·出版社：Grand Central Publishing
·页码：400 页
·出版日期：2004年06月
·ISBN：044661372X
·条形码：9780446613729
·装帧：简装
·外文书名：越轨追击
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Fatal Attraction meets The Usual Suspects in this dazzling thriller about a businessman whose life becomes a nightmare when he gets involved with the wrong woman. When an English teacher at Attica State Prison asks his incarcerated students to write about why they're in prison, he is astounded by the story of Charles Schine. Schine is a white, upper middle-class ad exec who meets Lucinda, a married woman, on the Long Island Railroad. Sharing pictures of their kids soon leads to a rendezvous in a sordid downtown hotel. But before they actually enter the room, they are held up by a man who rapes Lucinda, assults Charles, and steals both their wallets. He then proceeds to blackmail them. Desperate, Charles hires someone to eliminate him-but it's the hitman who ends up dead. In a world where no one is who they seem to be, Charles sinks deeper into a labyrinth of deceit, murder, and betrayal. And in a final act of stunning retribution, it's clear why Charles is in Attica-and what he's come to do there.
媒体推荐 From Booklist The wages of sin seem to include people coming after you with knives (
Fatal Attraction), snow globes (
Adultery), and, now, with Siegel's pulp-fiction cautionary tale, guns and blackmail. An ad executive boards the morning commuter train, filled with uneasy thoughts of his ailing daughter. His thoughts and, later, his life, get derailed by the presence of an alluring woman across from him with whom (after she pays his fare, a gratuity for which he will pay dearly) he strikes up a flirtation. Flirting leads inevitably, in Siegel's heavily overlaid prose, to an assignation in a seedy hotel. A man bursts into the room, pistol-whips the ad executive, and rapes the woman. From there, the beating descends to blackmail and the ad exec's plotted revenge. All of this is delivered in one-note, depressive style, with the writing veering from bland tough guy to poor man's poetic, as in "Lucinda was dressed for success--if success was making Charles's eyes water with adoration and arousal." Siegel's over-the-top tone and the flatness of his characters detract from the improbable yet intriguing plot. His first novel,
Epitaph [BKL My 1 01], was nominated for a Shamus Award. His second should draw heavy reader demand.
Connie FletcherCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Nelson Demille "Intense and startling...with unexpected twists that are shocking and satisfying...Complex characters, tight plotting, and powerful writing..."
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. James Patterson "DERAILED sure derailed me for a couple of nights. What a neat, twisty, well-written thriller!"
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. James W. Hall "...Mesmerizing from the first chapter, this novel is full of whiplash twists, compelling characters, and visceral and wrenching dramatic moments."
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 编辑推荐 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. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Charles's assignation goes wrong when he and his intended are assaulted, an event that leads him to Attica. Rapidly becoming the publisher's biggest book of the season. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From AudioFile A prison English teacher finds an anonymous paper in a pile of essays. It's the story of a man whose life changes dramatically when he takes a late train and meets a beautiful woman. A rendezvous with her ends in disaster when an attacker interrupts them at a New York hotel. The story is the teacher's own, full of painful memories of a life lost. Gregory Harrison makes this unlikely, and at times too graphic, tale of betrayal and deception seem personal and compelling. As Schine's life falls apart and is slowly rebuilt, Harrison projects a desperate, sympathetic character even as he guides listeners toward a violent confrontation that shows the depths of Schine's journey into nightmare. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine--
Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist The wages of sin seem to include people coming after you with knives (
Fatal Attraction), snow globes (
Adultery), and, now, with Siegel's pulp-fiction cautionary tale, guns and blackmail. An ad executive boards the morning commuter train, filled with uneasy thoughts of his ailing daughter. His thoughts and, later, his life, get derailed by the presence of an alluring woman across from him with whom (after she pays his fare, a gratuity for which he will pay dearly) he strikes up a flirtation. Flirting leads inevitably, in Siegel's heavily overlaid prose, to an assignation in a seedy hotel. A man bursts into the room, pistol-whips the ad executive, and rapes the woman. From there, the beating descends to blackmail and the ad exec's plotted revenge. All of this is delivered in one-note, depressive style, with the writing veering from bland tough guy to poor man's poetic, as in "Lucinda was dressed for success--if success was making Charles's eyes water with adoration and arousal." Siegel's over-the-top tone and the flatness of his characters detract from the improbable yet intriguing plot. His first novel,
Epitaph [BKL My 1 01], was nominated for a Shamus Award. His second should draw heavy reader demand.
Connie Fletcher Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Nelson Demille "Intense and startling...with unexpected twists that are shocking and satisfying...Complex characters, tight plotting, and powerful writing..."
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. James Patterson "DERAILED sure derailed me for a couple of nights. What a neat, twisty, well-written thriller!"
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. James W. Hall "...Mesmerizing from the first chapter, this novel is full of whiplash twists, compelling characters, and visceral and wrenching dramatic moments."
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 专业书评 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.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Charles's assignation goes wrong when he and his intended are assaulted, an event that leads him to Attica. Rapidly becoming the publisher's biggest book of the season.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From AudioFile A prison English teacher finds an anonymous paper in a pile of essays. It's the story of a man whose life changes dramatically when he takes a late train and meets a beautiful woman. A rendezvous with her ends in disaster when an attacker interrupts them at a New York hotel. The story is the teacher's own, full of painful memories of a life lost. Gregory Harrison makes this unlikely, and at times too graphic, tale of betrayal and deception seem personal and compelling. As Schine's life falls apart and is slowly rebuilt, Harrison projects a desperate, sympathetic character even as he guides listeners toward a violent confrontation that shows the depths of Schine's journey into nightmare. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine--
Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
