Head Hunters

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

Frenetic, ingenious and totally up-to-the-minute, Head Hunters is the first thriller to prise open the competitive jungle of the corporate world. "Your career profile could be of interest to us. Would you please get in touch" Jer me Carceville finds it impossible to resist such an e-mail, especially when the invitation comes from De Wavre International, one of the top headhunting organizations in the world. He responds, and after undergoing a variety of searching interviews and psychometric tests, he is eventually selected for a decisive 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 stimulated economic warfare, that their only weapons will be a computer and some strategic information, and that their 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.

Author Bio

Michel Crespy is professor of sociology at the University of Montpellier. Head Hunters won the Grand Prix de litterature polici re on its publication in France.