During the opening credits, Roger's no-nonsense voiceover explains the five rules of art theft. 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 is not particularly likable and his vicious world of international commerce is unattractive, though it glitters in a Mad Men way. He is more like Patricia Highsmith's psychopathic antihero Tom Ripley than Raffles, EW Hornung's gentleman thief. However, a malevolent fate comes up the Kattegat in the form of Clas Greve (leading Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) to pursue the complacent, hubristic antihero.

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Like [Stieg] Larsson, Nesbo explores the darkest criminal minds with grim delight and puts his killers where you least expect to find them. . . . [and] his novels are maddeningly addictive. Vanity FairNesbo has a horrormeister's flair for transforming natural scenes into ominous situations." -- The New York Times Book Review AFM Creative Space: Ukraine’s Green Light Films Targets Market Leadership Despite Launch in Wartime Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three and a half stars out of four, praising the film as "an argument for the kinds of thrillers I miss. It entertains with story elements, in which the scares evolve from human behavior. Unlike too many thrillers that depend on stunts, special effects and the Queasy cam, this one devises a plot where it matters what happens. It's not all kinetic energy". [15] It doesn't help that Headhunters is translated into a no-person's language that shows evidence of academic (rather than life) experience on the translator's part. (...) Headhunters is the kind of book that gives trash a bad name. Not least because it's ponderous enough to portend itself as something more." - Peter Craven, The Age

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Roger Brown is a headhunter for a recruitment firm. He has a beautiful wife, a beautiful home and is good at his job. But he has a self-percieved problem. He is 1.68m tall. Nesbo has a horrormeister s flair for transforming natural scenes into ominous situations. The New York Times Book Review Nesbo has a horrormeister's flair for transforming natural scenes into ominous situations." --"The New York Times" Book Review From the No.1 bestselling author of the Harry Holes series comes Headhunters - fraud, double-crossing and murder in a thriller where nothing is what it seems.... The cinema, as Karl Marx might have said, repeats itself, first as a Scandinavian thriller, then as a Hollywood remake. An American company acquired the rights to remake Morten Tyldum's Headhunters while it was still in production. They'll have trouble in making a movie half as good or half as authentic.

Roger is devoted to his wife, too -- relatively faithful (with one brief slip), and willing to do anything to make her happy, including paying for a lifestyle -- fancy house, fancy art gallery for Diana to run -- that is way beyond his pay grade. Headhunters has the same Nordic take though - a bit of casual nudity and sex, striking tall beautiful people, Ikea-style interior design and of course, subtitles. The over-intricate overlap of conspiracies and the number of coincidences mean that this isn't a particularly believable thriller; still, the big puzzle picture (and how it works out) is satisfying -- and a lot of the action is fun. Still, one has to hand it to Nesbø: all the pieces -- and the various clues strewn through the story -- eventually fall into neat (if still often very unlikely) place. It's a pretty good scam he has going -- but that and his whole world threaten to unravel when he is tempted by a really big score, an authentic Rubens.

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And Nesbø also proves himself a master manipulator, with some very nice twists, which allow him to bring the story to a surprisingly satisfying (if a bit too good to be true) conclusion.Gudny Hummelvoll for Yellowbird Norway is producing together with Eleonore Anselme and Alexia af Kleen. Piodor Gustafsson is executive producer at C More. Currently shooting in Norway, the Headhunters series is set to premiere in 2022. a b Jan Gunnar Furuly (2 September 2011). "Hodejegerne lånte scener fra Stieg Larsson-film"[Headhunters borrowed scenes from Stieg Larsson film]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 14 October 2013 . Retrieved 3 April 2012. As well as the bestselling series featuring Harry Hole, Jo writes fast-paced thrillers. Headhunters was adapted into a Bafta award-winning film and The Son topped the charts around the world.