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ISBN: 1842431633
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Price: £6.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 224pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth
Pub. Date: September 2005

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Jason Starr, author of Cold Caller, Nothing Personal, Fake I.D. and Hard Feelings was born in Brooklyn in 1966 and still lives in New York City. After completing a degree in economics at Binghampton University, Starr has concentrated on his classic noir crime fiction, which has been compared to the work of James Cain and Jim Thompson.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

Cool, deadpan, a rollercoaster ride to hell

If Jim Thompson had gotten an MBA, he might have written Cold Caller, a ravingly readable story of a downwardly mobile yuppie who'll just kill to get ahead. Once a rising VP at a topflight ad agency, Bill Moss now works as a "cold caller" at a telemarketing firm in the Times Square area. He's got a bad case of the urban blues, and when a pink slip rather than promotion comes through, Bill snaps... Now he's got a dead supervisor on his hands and problems no career counsellor can help him with.

Jason Starr has retooled the James M. Cain novel of cynical suspense and murder for the fiber-optic age.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...Well crafted and very scary..." - The Times

"...Cool, deadpan, a rollercoaster ride to hell..." - The Guardian

"...Tough, composed and about as noir as you can go. Starr is a worthy successor to Charles Willeford..." - Literary Review

"...At the cutting edge of the revival of classic American noir fiction..." - Daily Telegraph