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Headhunters
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  • Published: 20 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448114900
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 7 hr 56 min
  • Narrator: Sean Barrett

Headhunters

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1 Sept 2011
Audiobook
20 Oct 2011
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1 Oct 2015
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A fantastic standalone thriller from the number 1 bestselling author, Jo Nesbo

Roger Brown has it all. He's the country's most successful headhunter. He has a beautiful wife and a magnificent house. And to maintain this lifestyle, he's also a highly accomplished art thief.

At a gallery opening, his wife introduces him to Clas Greve. Not only is Greve the perfect candidate for a position with one of Roger's high-profile clients, he is also in possession of 'The Calydonian Boar Hunt' by Rubens, one of the most sought-after paintings in the world.

Roger sees his chance to be rich beyond his wildest dreams and starts planning his boldest heist yet. But soon, he runs into trouble - and this time money is the least of his worries...
  • Published: 20 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448114900
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 7 hr 56 min
  • Narrator: Sean Barrett
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About the author

Jo Nesbo

Jo Nesbo is one of the world’s bestselling crime writers, with The Leopard, Phantom, Police, The Son, The Thirst and Knife all topping the Sunday Times bestseller charts. He’s an international number one bestseller and his books are published in 50 languages, selling over 45 million copies around the world.

Before becoming a crime writer, Nesbo played football for Norway’s premier league team Molde, but his dream of playing professionally for Spurs was dashed when he tore ligaments in his knee at the age of eighteen. After three years military service he attended business school and formed the band Di Derre (‘Them There’). They topped the charts in Norway, but Nesbo continued working as a financial analyst, crunching numbers during the day and gigging at night. When commissioned by a publisher to write a memoir about life on the road with his band, he instead came up with the plot for his first Harry Hole crime novel, The Bat.

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Praise for Headhunters

The reader is glued to the pages like gum to the street.... Nesbo has accomplished an easily digested, but nevertheless brilliant and elegant thriller

Dagsavisen (Norway)

A darkly funny and cleverly plotted tale of greed which will further Nesbo's reputation

Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4

He keeps the twists and shocks coming hard and fast before dumping us, breathless, into a head-scratchingly neat conclusion... an intriguing foray into the mind of a man you'd hope never to meet

Siobhan Murphy, Metro

Headhunters is a stand-alone thriller, but just as well executed as his regular police procedurals...Written in the Norwegian author's typical no-nonsense prose, and plotted with precision to create a relentless and breakneck tale that keeps the reader hungrily turning the pages for more.

Doug Johnstone, Big Issue

Nesbo is a master storyteller, gripping the reader from the first page and rachetingup the suspense in a thrilling finale with several satisfying twists.

Jon Coates, Sunday Express

With echoes of The Thomas Crown Affair, spectacular storytelling and a beautifully judged super-twist, it confirms Nesbo's place at the pinnacle of thriller writers and, inevitably, a film version will be with us next year. It's that good.

Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail