About this book
Headhunters (2008) is a lean, blackly comic heist-thriller about a corporate recruiter who moonlights as an art thief and picks catastrophically the wrong target. It became an internationally successful Norwegian film and helped build Jo Nesbø's English-language readership ahead of Harry Hole's wider translation; it preceded The Son among his standalone novels.
Key facts about Headhunters
Jo Nesbø wrote Headhunters, a book on our list. It has been out since 2008. The book has 389 pages.
We list 1 edition of this book. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780099587064 to find the main one.
Jo Nesbø has 27 books on our list. 19 of them belong to a series, while 8 stand alone. All 27 are out now. Other books by Jo Nesbø on file include Wolf Hour (2025), Killing Moon (2022), The Jealousy Man and Other Stories (2021) and The Kingdom (2020).
Earlier, The Snowman came out in 2007. After it came The Leopard in 2009. It is one of 2 Jo Nesbø books dated 2008. Since then, our list has added 17 more books by Jo Nesbø.
Jo Nesbø has 2 series on file, such as Harry Hole and Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder. Those series sit on our thriller and middle-grade comedy shelves. Meanwhile, Kill Shot is the latest published Jo Nesbø book on file, from 5 November 2026.
About Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø is a Norwegian author who worked as a stockbroker and fronted the popular rock band Di Derre before turning to crime writing with The Bat in 1997, the first of what became the Harry Hole series. See every Jo Nesbø book in order.
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780099587064