The success of the Millenium trilogy (The Girl with the
Dragon Tattoo etc) and the very public tragedy that plagued the life of author,
Steig Larsson, has shone the light on our Nordic cousins’ niche talent as crime
writers, giving birth to the ‘Scandi-crime’ genre.
Edgar [Allen Poe] Award nominated Norwegian writer, Jo
Nesbo, has usurped Larsson as the new front-runner of Scandi-crime, with his
globally bestelling novel, Headhunters, being adapted into a film.
This darkly twisted drama centres on impossibly successful
corporate head hunter, Roger Brown, whose prolific side-line in fine art
thievery turns into a survival exercise when it turns out that one of his
victims is a head hunter of a more animalistic kind.
Continuous plot turns and characters with uncertain
intentions and ever-changing loyalties make Headhunters a disturbing, gripping
action-thriller.
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