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Headhunter: A novel

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Headhunter is a complex novel which combines images from Conrad's Heart of Darkness (the escape of Mr. Kurtz) and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (Jay Gatz, the lady in white) into a superb psycological novel. Findley is a master of the screw-with-your-head type of novel, and he has proved it with Headhunter.

The novel has countless dimensions that cannot be revealed through one reading. I look forward to reading it again (when I get it back from the last person I told "You HAVE to read this!").

It's lengthy, but definitly worth the time. Enjoy the book!

I don't usually like "mystery" or "suspense" novels, but this book took me by surprise and proved impossible to put down. The plot is not "overlong and overwrought". In fact, Findley builds the story meticulously. Right from the first page a sense of forboding and horror pervades the book, very much as in the model, Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" (also used by Coppola in "Apocalypse Now"). Perhaps not a "successor" to Conrad's novel, but certainly a very worthwhile development from it and one which does not owe its genius to the original. Certainly the reader will get more out of this book having read Conrad.

This book should please suspense readers as well as those after something a little more substantial. I am very surprised the book is not better known and am curious to read more by Timothy Findley.

Findley updates the distrubing images and symbolism of Conrad's classic Heart of Darkness, in this riveting epic. The character development is incredibly precise and leaves the reader with a true sense of being invloved with the characters. It is much easier to comprehend if you have read and studied Conrad's book, but a must for anyone who enjoyed the classic. Headhunter is book that will stay with you for the ages.

The Headhunter was good. I laughed, I was amazed, I was scared, I was glad. What more could you ask for. Good job Timothy Findley. Keep up the good work.

Timothy Findley weaves the ultimate in psychological tales, and brings to life a collage of the most twisted and believable characters. A must for any Torontonian looking for a 21st century dark slant to the city. One of the best books of the decade. You can't put it down. Appleals to the darkness and the psychologist in us all

This is a superb literary thriller, the thinking person's antidote to hip, but mind-numbing, pop culture referencing. It helps to have some stored up memories of Heart of Darkness, as well as other works such as The Great Gatsby, but its chills do not extend only to the bookish. Warning: This book reveals what "the horror, the horror" means to a late 20th c. audience. It's not for the squeamish, but it is worthy of attention