Headhunters
by:
Jo Nesbo (author)
Jo Nesbo (author)
Don Bartlett (translator)
Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he s a master of his profession. But one career simply can t support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife s fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also,...
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Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he s a master of his profession. But one career simply can t support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife s fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also, perhaps, the answer to his financial woes: Greve just so happens to mention that he owns a priceless Peter Paul Rubens painting that s been lost since World War II and Roger Brown just so happens to dabble in art theft. But when he breaks into Greve s apartment, he finds more than just the painting. And Clas Greve may turn out to be the worst thing that s ever happened to Roger Brown.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307948687 (0307948684)
Publish date: 2011-09-06
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 265
Edition language: English
Roger didn't like this candidate at all. But what he is interested in is his collection of art that he wanted to steal. The characters are not likeable. The readers have to find out who is really the worst guy as both of the protagonists are liars. Interesting and stinky kind of story. Not prett...
bookshelves: summer-2015, published-2008, translation, norway, mystery-thriller, art-forms, corporate-ladder, picaresque, oslo, adventure, betrayal, contemporary, eye-scorcher, fraudio, games-people-play, gangsters, kleptomania, look-behind-you, noir, ouch, poison, pop-fic, psychology, revenge, sta...
3.5 stars rounded down. Too big a plot for the writing. Or perhaps it was the translation? But I don't think so.
Do Nesbo mam słabość. A mówiąc dokładniej do jego najbardziej znanego bohatera literackiego jakim jest Harry Hole. Dlatego też, mimo zakończenia serii nadal sięgam po inne teksty tegoż autora. "Łowcy głów" to druga taka pozycja po "Synie". I cóż mogę powiedzieć? Głowy ani innej części ciała raczej n...
Jo Nesbo has been an author that i have been long wishing to read and i finally settled down with HeadHunters to be the first ever work that i would read from his house of works.Jo Nesbo's HeadHunters is originally in Norwegian and the english version is actually a translated version by Don Bartlett...