Frank "Dolly" Dillon has a job he hates, working sales and collections for Pay-E
-Zee Stores, a wife named Joyce he can't stand, and an account balance that bare
ly allows him to pay the bills each month. Working door-to-door one day, trying
to eke money out of folk with even less of it than he has, Dolly crosses paths w
ith a beautiful young woman named Mona Farrell. Mona's being forced by her aunt
to do things she doesn't like, with men she doesn't know--she wants out, any way
she can get it. And to a man who wants nothing of what he has, Mona sure looks
like something he actually does.
Soon Dolly and Mona find themselves involved
in a scheme of robbery, murder and mayhem that makes Dolly's blood run cold. As
Dolly's plans begin to unravel, his mind soon follows.
In A HELL OF A WOMAN,
Jim Thompson offers another arresting portrait of a deviant mind, in an ambitio
us crime novel that ranks among his best work.
