December 29, 2012

• Headhunters

  I am reviewing the novel Headhunters by Jo Nesbo which is an excellent thriller and which I bought from a carboot sale. This is a standalone thriller and the proceeds from the book and the film rights go to charity. The plot is there is a corporate headhunter who is also an art thief. He uses the interviews as an excuse to find out if potential clients have any expensive art and what security arrangements they make and then steals it. Anyway one particular client is having an affair with his partner and has a picture worth millions so he decides to steal it. This particular client is a bit of a gangster and wants to kill him. His partner plants a tracer device on him that he can’t get rid of and the art owner is trying to find him so he can run his lorry into him or shoot him. His partner gets murdered. He hides the painting in the roof of his car where no one will look. One thing that does come up in the story is that the client who is dutch was in the army and posted in Suriname where he was captured and horribly tortured. In one scene also the headhunter called Roger has to hide in a cesspit with a toilet roll for a snorkel. There is a satisfying ending rather than a happy one and there is lots of twists and turns. Also the book was made into a norwegian language film fairly recently. It is available on dvd and blu ray.

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