Payment Deferred (C. S. Forester)
[Franklin Lib.]

Payment Deferred follows a desperate bank clerk who commits a crime to escape financial ruin only to find himself trapped in a tightening web of guilt fear and moral decay. As his initial success gives way to paranoia and suspicion the novel becomes a tense psychological study of a man undone by his own choices. Forester crafts a gripping portrait of desperation and the corrosive effects of secrecy.