Hot Spot

Hot Spot by Williams, Charles. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780679733294.

A dark, brooding masterpiece of guilt, greed, and lust in a town ripe for felony. Madox wasnt all bad. He was just half-bad. But trap a man like Madox in a dead-end job in a stultifying small town, introduce him to a femme fatale like the Harshaw woman, and give him a shot at a fast fifteen thousand dollars--in a bank just begging to be knocked over--and his better nature doesnt stand a chance. Merciless in its suspense, flawless in its grasp of the ways in which ordinary people hurtle over the edge, The Hot Spot is a superb example of fifties roman noir.