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glad this audiobook is over didn't even care about what happened to him at the end,
just know he deserved it.
. . COLD CALLER is one of those books that gets better the more times I read it.


The dialogue is crisp, clever, and portrays the mindset of lead character Bill in perfect clarity.
From his deluded thoughts of justice to his misguided sense of right and wrong, author Jason Starr manages to make Bill's rationale honest whilst being equally murderous.


As far as white collar noir goes, COLD CALLER is right up there, The plot is bullet riddled with acts of easy violence that almost feel natural as Bill climbs over bodies and up the corporate ladder.
The evolution of a telemarketer to serial killer is executed with a coldly calculated sharpness few authors could muster.


COLD CALLER is a great book and tailor made for readers who crave good dialogue and clever plotting.
I'll definitely be reading it again at some stage down the track,

sitelink blogspo The plot is easy to follow,and narrative crisp and clear,but sorry something is missing for me.
Probably I have a dejavu feeling that I've read this kind before, Reading it again may give me a different impression,


An interesting read, dark humour throughout, Shades of American Psycho and Chuck Palahniuk, though not up to those standards in my opinion.
I didn't realise this was a debut and so for that it gets extra points,


.I finished this book in less than a day, Jason Starr's consistent ability to keep readers glued to the page is incredible, It's good realistic, fast paced, donot think too much about it, crime book,

Very effective if you want to mentally shield yourself from feeling guilty when you're very abrupt with telemarketers over the phone.


I picked it up when I found myself without a book on me but with a train ride to go, it did what I wanted from it: it was a fast read, not too involving, not too demanding on the brain.
Now I can move on to other things, This is a really weak noir that I felt had some promise, but ultimately squandered it's opportunity with a weak, predictable story that took far too long to unfold, and a dull, unrelatable character whom I disliked more and more as the story progressed.


There was too much fluff to pad out the barely there story, I couldn't sympathise or relate to the main character at all and overall I felt sorry for the people he had to interact with.
I get that the protagonist is some sort of narcissistic yuppy douche, but even morally reprehensible characters can be written so that you relate in some way.
The rest of the characters in the book are rather forgettable and twodimensional, but at least a few provoked some sort of empathetic reaction.


The only saving grace of this book is that it's a relatively quick read so you can get it over with and move on to something better.
I thoroughly enjoyed this thriller, Cold Caller was fast paced, had dark humour, and felt like a bit of a tame version of American Psycho at times.
This was really easy to listen to in audiobook format, and I found myself taking it around the house with me all day, as I couldn't stop listening to it.


I borrowed this through Amazon Kindle Unlimited, I've enjoyed a previous book by this author but found that this one was only soso.
Written as a first person narrative, I couldn't really engage with the main character who is, and is probably written to be, a bit of a psycho.
I made it through to the end and was rather surprised I did, Cold Caller by neonoir master, author Jason Starr, is pretty good! It's Starr's first published novel and his unique style is fully inplace.
The story follows narcissistic sociopath Bill Moss through his lowlevel career and lovelife in New York City.
. . and the only answer to his life issues there appears to be murder, It may sound like American Psycho but as opposed to that novel Bill Moss's world is very tightly, tightly controlled by who else.
. . Bill Moss! Author Starr's technique of turning a paragraph on a dime by flipflopping the intent of the last sentence is fully inplace here.
. . and that leads to some humorous reading! Example on page, "If I loved her I would have left her right then and not gotten her more involved in my life more than she already was.
. . But I was too worried about myself to worry about her, " That's some pretty narcissistic shit there and the book is loaded with those, . . funny stuff. Also included with this edition published inis a new Introduction by Starr, There he explains some autobiographical background in Cold Caller, . . and, which I found useful, is Starr advises to read his work in chronological order as written.
. . which is good for me because I have only read three of Starr's books, . . by coincidence the first two, Cold Caller amp Fake ID plus histh book, the great Twisted City.
So I'm pretty much inline to reading the rest of Starr's novels one at a time inorder.
If I were to compare Starr's writing to any other author from the past it would be Day Keene's Sleep With the Devil, but Jason Starr has definitely created his own neonoir world out of New York City.
. . Great, Great reading if you're a fan of neonoircrimefiction, . . I give Cold Caller a strong,rating, so I'll bump it up to a,, especially because

its his first published novel, . . A bit of a weird one this! I received a random add from a verified author on Twitter, and so browsed some of his stuff.
This book seemed short enough, with a decent enough concept to hook me in, 

Unfortunately, this book is just a bit too ridiculous to be deemed good, For a start, the cited plot concept only occurs half way through the book, meaning the first half is pointless preamble.
Not only this, the characters were all so wooden and often cliche, I also maintain that using racism to make the reader hate a character is a cheap niche, used too readily here.
And finally, the protagonist is just too delusional to be considered credible, 

But, with that said, the second half of the book Id say the lastpages reads very quickly and you are intrigued to see what happens next.
To be frank, the ending is simply ridiculous, 

Was I entertained Yes. Would I recommend No. But for ap book, Im not too disappointed with this one! ONE SENTENCE SUMMARY: A dark, twisted roller coaster ride and certainly a story you will not easily forget.


BRIEF REVIEW: Bill Moss was once a VP of an ad agency but, now he works as a telemarketer at ACA, a call center in New York City.
It's a horrible company that engages in racially discriminatory practices by paying larger commissions to white employees and wrongly laying off a higher percentage of black employees to avoid paying out their commissions.
Bill hates his job and feels under appreciated and has plans of quitting his job, He has convinced his weak, gullible, girlfriend Julie to move back to Seattle with him where he's convinced he can get a top level management job.
The very next day, after Julie reluctantly resigns from her high level position, Bill gets promoted to Assistant to the President at ACA.
Of course, his promotion is built on a lie he told because, that's what Bill does but, that lie will come back to bite him.
Bill lies a lot, he cheats a lot and he makes his girlfriend believe that she is paranoid and has an explosive temper at times as well.
Bill is a sociopath, Bill is delusional, Bill may be a psychopath and as the story progresses, Bill can add murderer to the list.


Bill is a character that is easy to detest but, he's like a car wreck that once you start reading about him and all of his antics and just how his warped mind works you won't be able to turn away or stop reading.


This is the author's first novel and although the writing isn't exceptional, the story is very addictive and easily readable and it very much satisfied my warped sense of humor.
The story is dark but you will find it hard to resist chuckling or at least scratching your head in amazement at times and, I also loved the ending as well.
I got the idea to try this one as it was mentioned in Peter Swanson's book, Eight Perfect Murders, a book that I loved.
Touted as one of the topnoir crime novels of all time and an international best seller, the Kindle version is available for just. in case I've made you curious, I'm definitely planning on checking out what else the author has out,

RATING:./Jason Starr is the kind of solid, dependable thriller writer i can get behind, Kinda trashy, but deceptively astute, incredibly wellplotted, sharp, funny and really dark, In this one, you're not exactly rooting for the character, he's a scumbucket, but there's something about him that you sympathise with.
It's a neat trick, and his slow moral descent is pretty funny and frighteningly realistic, Not sure if it jumped the shark at the end, A total pageturner though. Awful on so many levels, . . Jason Starr is a hidden gem, It's a shame, he hasn't got the recognition he deserves, There are not many authors, who can evoke such tension and page, and even more so: maintain this tension for the entire book.
I only hope that Mr, Starr will write more novels, This wasnt the kind of novel by Jason Starr I was expecting, It lacked the action and humor Im accustomed to in books by him,

Instead this became a gripping if leisurely paced, almost plodding, thriller, Told in the firstperson, the first two thirds were consumed with intricate details of the narrators job as a telemarketer, his ambitions for a better position in the company, and his manipulative handling of fellow employees and bosses.
Even worse is his toying with the emotions of his fiancée when at home,

As the novel progresses the reader comes to realize that there are multiple facets to our narrators personality.
At some point the novel becomes intolerably suspenseful, almost horrific,

This is a very well written thriller with a narrator out of the Jim Thompson school of psychotics.
The wrap up is a real shocker, Darkly comic take of a deluded egotist making some very bad decisions, . highly readable!

Cold Caller is Jason Starrsdebut and is classified as American noir, specifically hardboiled white collar noir and having read very little of the genre I wasnt sure quite what to expect.
Whilst I am not sure that I enjoyed the novel or would recommend it, I certainly couldnt stop reading and that certainly says something.
Why Firstly due to how bizarre it seemed and secondly due to the wryly amusing, serial lying and immoral protagonist whose firstperson narrative makes him strangely easy to empathise with.


Bill Moss is in his early thirties and should have been somebody in the world of advertising up until losing his job as a VP of marketing at a major New York agency two years earlier.
Taking a job as a cold caller at a telemarketing firm was only supposed to be a temporary stopgap and despite his aptitude for the job, he considers it well beneath him.
Unfulfilled and fed up renting a cramped apartment with Julie, the whining girlfriend who is holding him back, a disastrous commute and the petty bureaucracy of his linemanager sees him snap.
But when the unexpected upshot results in being promoted to the assistant to the officious telemarketing manager, Bill is in no doubt that his time has come and is already dreaming of his swift return to his old career.
But Bill, smart and welleducated with an MBA, has big plans and when his fatheaded manger, Ed OBrien, throws a spanner in the works he succumbs to his fury and starts to take out anything standing in his way!

Bill is the ultimate unreliable narrator and very economical with the truth, even to himself.
A deluded egotist with an iceberg size chip of his shoulder, his narrative withholds the reason he lost his job and portrays those that surround him through his own very biased perspective.
There is little objective about his makeup and his belief that he is right is unfailing, with those that disagree either simply stupid or jealous of his talent.
However his dedication to his work cannot be faulted and terms of productivity and hours worked his record after promotion is stellar.


Whilst I wouldnt particularly categorise the book as a thriller given there is nothing too surprising about Bills downward spiral as his lies, halfheartedly makes an effort to coverup his crimes and deals with the unforeseen consequences, it is undoubtedly a compelling ride.
Although it takes until the halfway mark for Bill to actually despatch his boss, the buildup to it is hugely entertaining as from the getgo he is a loose canon heading towards a disaster given the size of his ego and lack of conscience.


In parts the story reminded me of a calmer and less gratuitous version on American Psycho whilst at others I struggled to follow the protagonists random chain of thought which saw him incensed by the petty bureaucracy of his telemarketing job at one moment to fantasising about prostitutes the next.
I did feel that Bills relationship with Julie a needy embarrassment to women everywhere added little to the story and was noticeably less tense than any of the time he spent in the workplace.


The ending is near perfect and a satisfying resolution to a short, slick and blackly comic novel and Cold Caller is an atmospheric and crazy look at a telemarketer releasing his frustrations in the most extreme of ways! A short novel of cynical suspense that leaves a lasting impression and the memory of an unforgettable character whose engaging narrative makes him oddly likeable!

So whilst I wouldnt actively seek out any more of this authors books, I would definitely read another it if the opportunity arose.
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