Cold Caller

A ravingly readable tale of a downwardly mobile yuppie who'll just kill to get ahead. Think Jim Thompson with an MBA. Once Bill Moss was a rising VP at a topflight ad agency, but now he works as a "cold caller" at a telemarketing firm in the Times Square area. He's got a bad case of the urban blues. Still, he's good at his work and (he thinks) about to be promoted, when out of the blue he's fired. So Bill snaps . . . and the next thing he knows he has a dead supervisor on his hands and problems no career counselor can help him with. In Cold Caller Jason Starr retools the James M. Cain novel of cynical suspense and murder for the fiber-optic age.

About the Author

Jason Starr is the international bestselling author of many crime novels and thrillers, including Savage Lane (on sale 10/13/15 from Polis Books). Starr's other novels are Cold Caller, Nothing Personal, Fake I.D., Hard Feelings, Tough Luck, Twisted City, Lights Out, The Follower, Panic Attack, The Pack, The Craving. He has won the Anthony Award twice, as well as the Barry Award, and his books are published in more than a dozen languages. He has also co-written four novels with Ken Bruen--Bust, Slide, The Max and Pimp (on sale 3/15/16 from Hard Case Crime)--and co-edited Bloodlines, an anthology of horse racing stories for Vintage Books. He has written comics and graphic novels for Vertigo (THE CHILL), DC (Batman, Doc Savage, Sand, The Avenger, and Marvel (The Punisher, Wolverine Max, and the original novel Ant-Man Natural Enemy). He lives in Manhattan.