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Head Hunters

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Jerome Carceville finds it impossible to resist such an email from one of the top head-hunting firms in the world. He responds, and after undergoing a variety of searching interviews and psychometric tests, he is eventually selected for a decisive and final examination. The fifteen talented and driven finalists arrive at a hotel on an island in the middle of an Alpine lake. Only two of them have a realistic chance of being offered the job, and when Del Rieco, the 'games-master' informs them that the nature of the contest is simulated economic warfare and that the competitors must be eliminated, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary recruitment drive. What seems to start as a simple team-building exercise soon becomes a horrifying and bloody battle for supremacy.

272 pages, Paperback

First published May 16, 2000

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116 reviews15 followers
March 12, 2021
Hay varias cosas que no me gustaron de este libro.
Primero que nada no hay acción hasta las últimas cincuenta páginas, además este libro está lleno de lenguaje empresarial que se vuelva bastante monótono. Asimismo, el final se resuelve super rápido y te saca todas las ganas de que al personaje le pasen cosas buenas.
Lo único que puedo rescatar de este libro son los personajes.
Pd: El personaje principal hace algunos comentarios hacia las mujeres que es molesto.
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Author 27 books398 followers
January 31, 2020
Si gusta lo psicológico, este libro te explota la cabeza. Empieza el prologo narrando en primera persona que el personaje esta sentado en la tierra al lado de un cadáver escuchando como los perros se aproximan a él. Toda la historia gira a trabes una duda de lo personajes y logra transmitirla al lector. Una todo el tiempo esta preguntándose si los personajes tienen razón o están delirando. Excelente.
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88 reviews
January 2, 2021
It started off with so much hope, expectation, joy and then as you read on you find that it never will reach the heights that you wanted it to get to. Reading the back it sounded like: Deliverance for the high flyers. Although it is something like that, it just never quite hits the mark.
368 reviews2 followers
March 25, 2020
Voici un livre fascinant. Je n’étais pas amateur du tout du thème proposé j’étais même désespérée mais la tournure inattendue m’a tenue en haleine jusqu’à la fin.
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February 1, 2023
Książka trzymała mnie w napięciu, czytało się szybko i z zainteresowaniem. Prawdziwe życie w korpo … Emocje i reakcje ludzi , którzy sami nie zdają sobie sprawy do czego są w stanie się posunąć w sytuacji walki i zagrożenia.
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57 reviews16 followers
August 29, 2013
Impression générale : ça m'a énormément plu.
Un livre très prenant , j'ai pas pu le poser avant de tourner la dernière page.
L'auteur nous raconte , à la première personne, l'histoire d'un chômeur qui fut convoqué par une entreprise lui offrant un job. Il nous plonge ensuite dans un monde sombre où il n'y a pas de place à l'innocence. Que des manipulateurs. On sait à priori que les choses vont mal tourné et on arrête pas de tourner les pages tout en chassant chaque indice qui peut nous être utile. Le style y est fluides. Le texte est bourré de dialogues intelligents et amusants.
Le décor m'a beaucoup plu , pas un seul instant d'ennui.
Bref , c'est un excellent polar !
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July 10, 2008
A fairly well written thriller but the author is a little too attached to his habit of dropping in amateur social psychology and 'insights' into the nature of dog eat dog capitalism. Plus after a slow build-up the ending seems to have been tacked on in a rush and is not psychologically convincing.
433 reviews2 followers
December 22, 2013
OMG - I really tried to get into this book - did the required 100 pages before ditching. It is just full of waffle waffle waffle waffle etc.....
Blurb on the back sounded promising but just too wordy and not enough action.
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September 20, 2015
It was an interesting gripping book. It was strange pulling for the thief to be successful!
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