Product Description

This is an extremely 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #571796 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 218 pages

Customer Reviews

Dark places
At first, it's easy to sympathise with the Bill Moss. He is put upon by every other character.

But, gradually, the real Moss intrudes. And he's not the put upon, grim realist of first impressions. He's a manipulative, over ambitious control freak who will stop at nothing to get between him and promotion.

Grim, bleak and blackly humorous.

Call Centre Killer !
Cold Caller was Jason Starr's debut novel and if it's anything to go by his other books will definately be worth a read. Bill Moss was once a successful young man but now he is a lowly telemarketer and he'll do ANYTHING to change that. The career mishaps combined with the characters personal problems, such as his obsession with prostitues and his needy girlfriend make for a real page turner that I finished in a few days (unusual for me). This book is recommended to anyone who enjoyed the film Falling Down or who has ever thought they could do a better job than their boss.

A frighteningly ordinary character
This book gets darker and darker as the chapters pass. Bill Moss appears to be ordinary. But his actions become increasingly, scarily, extrodinary. Most frightening of all is how easy it is to emphasis with Bill. I wish I had written this book, but I'm not sure I would like others to know I had. I think it gives a unique insight into how males think and might act if pushed beyond reason. An excellent read.