thoroughly exciting listen

I've listened to a lot of Nesbo / Barrett audiobooks and this ranks among the most exciting. a very different style to his Harry Hole novels but in a good sense. I was tricked by the ending too. great!

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Excellent

A gripping story full of action and irony as well. Beautifully read as usual by Sean Barrett. He is so good that I have looked up his other performances.

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Headhunters By Jo Nesbo

Excellent incite into the human psyche. Went for a drive just to listen to the end!

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Not bad...not great

It wasn’t a bad story. Good characters as normal from Jo Nesbo but just not up to the same level as the Harry Hole series. But definitely not the worst.

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keeps you guessing!!

Not what you expect from Jo Nesbo but still full of twists and turns, as is usual from this eloquent writer also so we'll narrated by Sean Barrett very enjoyable.

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Excellent!

Lots of twists and a very exciting story. Sean Barrett is the best narrator I’ve listened to.

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Sorry Jo I kept expecting Harry to solve it!

Would you listen to Headhunters again? Why?

It was a memorable story, I would find it hard to achieve the same level of interest again.

What did you like best about this story?

Typical Jo Nesbo I was a bit frustrated to find there was no Harry Hole but warmed to the plot a little mind stretching in the technology (although not in the near future i guess).

What does Sean Barrett bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

A good element of pace and suspense.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Just talk to the head hunter, what can go wrong?

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Tension, Breath Stopping Tension

This is a story where it's so tense you feel that you want to speed up the storytelling because its so good. The eponymous Headhunter is smug, manipulative, deceitful, but there's always someone fiercer out there in the world. A thriller in every sense; putting the reader right in the middle of the menacing heart-stopping experience - and unbelievably its also make you laugh out loud. After listening to this Jo Nesbo book its hard not to start straight away on another. A good story and good listening.

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Predator becomes prey

Roger Brown, our hero or anti-hero depending on your view point, he then proceeds with a poised wit to demonstrate his manipulative gifts by bending a client to his will while extracting the information he needs to steal a valuable lithograph of Edvard Munch's The Brooch.



Roger Brown seems to have everything, a trophy wife he fears losing and a girlfriend that is only on the scene for his apparent pleasure. Roger has a fancy home with all the mod cons and likes the finer things in life, along with this his wife who is very high maintenance and hence he lives way beyond his means. His job as a leading Head hunter, for recruitment agency hardly pays the bills, however, it does enable him to pick out `marks' and then rob them of valuable art work - the main source of his income!



Roger is not particularly likable and his vicious world of international commerce is unattractive. However, a malevolent fate comes up the Kattegat in the form of Clas Greve to pursue the complacent, antihero.

Greve is a handsome, wealthy, charismatic son of a Dutch father and a Norwegian mother, apparently between jobs, having recently worked for a major military contractor. Roger seeks him out for Pathfinder, a conglomerate run from Oslo, and sees him as a target for theft as he secretly owns a valuable Rubens that apparently came into the family's hands by way of Nazi confiscation during the Second World War.



What follows in the narration is `tour de force' of violence and dark humour. Where would be predator becomes prey, and nothing can be taken at face value. Add some James Bond like hair gel that can be tracked by GPS and you're onto a roller coaster ride!

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Loved it

Very clever plot line and lots of twists. Good narrative and fast paced. Would recommend

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