drkottke 's review for:

Headhunters by Jo Nesbø

3.0

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If you have a chance to be reincarnated as a fictional character, sweet Jesus don't opt to be a protagonist in a Jo Nesbo novel. Every book seems to take Nietzsche's proclamation that what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger and respond with "Oh, yeah? Try this!" This twisty noir novel exists in a bleaker Oslo than the Harry Hole novels, if that can be imagined. It's like a case Hole might be involved with, told from the perspective of the criminal. I prefer the Hole books, where our hero may be flawed, but his moral core is intact underneath the much. Nevertheless, this is still a darkly breezy entertainment.