However, he soon runs into trouble – and this time around it’s not financial problems that are threatening to knock him over… Roger sees his chance to become financially independent, and starts planning his biggest hit ever. Not only is Greve the perfect candidate for the CEO position of the GPS company Pathfinder for which Brown is recruiting – he is also in possession of ”The Calydonian Boar Hunt” by Peter Paul Rubens, one of the most sought-after paintings in modern art history. At a gallery opening, his wife introduces him to the Dutchman Clas Greve. Meanwhile, he is playing at the dangerous game of art theft.
Written in a terse, pithy style (and translated in customarily nimble fashion by Don Bartlett), it concentrates on just three characters: two men, and a woman who is an object of desire for both.Headhunters introduces the charming villain Roger Brown, a man who seems to have it all: he is Norway’s most successful headhunter, married to the beautiful gallery owner Diana, owns a magnificent house, and is living larger than he should. Recent novels by Nesbo have been imposing, lengthy pieces, but Headhunters is more economical.
The central character in this standalone novel is (on first impression) an unpleasant, manipulative piece of work, and it is a measure of the author's skill that we find ourselves thoroughly on his side. If you are a Nesbo aficionado, hungry for another dose of his damaged but sympathetic copper Harry Hole, you will be obliged to adjust your expectations. The following day, an associate in the robbery is discovered dead in his car, and Roger finds himself in the sights of another kind of headhunter. He has targeted a Rubens as a way of settling his debts, but during the robbery Brown comes across disturbing facts about his wife.
He burgles the home of a candidate he has lined up for a prestigious job, and suddenly things go seriously amiss. Brown finds himself in dire financial straits, and is obliged to make some serious illegal money.
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