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 a promotion comes
through, Bill snaps....Now he's got a dead supervisor on
his hands and problems no career counselor can help him
with. Jason Starr has retooled the James M. Cain novel of
cynical suspense and murder for the fiber-optic age.