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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (hardback)

Originally published
  
February 2003

Genre
  
Fiction

Adaptations
  
Derailed (2005)

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Publication date
  
2003 (1st edition)

OCLC
  
50035118

Author
  
James Siegel

Publisher
  
Grand Central Publishing

Country
  
United States of America

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Pages
  
339 p. (hardback edition)

ISBN
  
0-446-53158-8 (hardback edition)

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Derailed is a thriller novel written by James Siegel and published in February 2003. It tells the story of Charles Schine, a man who works in the advertising business, who suddenly finds himself having an affair, being blackmailed, and having the police investigate him for murder, all because he missed his usual commuter train one day.

Adaptations

  • A movie based on the novel was released on November 11, 2005 in the USA. The film starred Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston, Melissa George, among others.
  • The Tamil movie entitled "Pachaikili Muthucharam", directed by Gautham Menon and featuring Sarath Kumar, Jyothika, and Milind Soman, was based on "Derailed".
  • The Train: Some Lines Should Never Be Crossed, a bollywood movie starring Emran Hashmi, Geeta Basra and Sayali Bhagat, was also based on "Derailed". Both these movies were released in the same year, 2007.
  • A Sinhala movie titled "Dakina Dakina Mal" starring Damitha Abeyrathne, Roshan Pilapitiya, Roger Seneviratne and Semini Iddamalgoda, was made with a very similar storyline.
  • Gautam Menon, the director of the Tamil version of the movie, credited the novel in the end titles, saying, he was inspired by the novel. The Hindi version of the movie did not give any due credits.

    • References

    Derailed (novel) Wikipedia
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