~ Trade Paperback
Headhunter is set in set in a futuristic pollution and plague-ravaged Toronto, where librarian, spiritualist, and schizophrenic, Lilah Kemp inadvertently lets Kurtz out of page 92 of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and is unable to get him back in . . .
Another example of Timothy Findley's great ability to blend morality and entertainment, the willingness to blend literature and pulp is Headhunter's greatest asset.
"Just as Heart of Darkness heralded many of the 20th century's cruelties and evil obsessions, so Headhunter ends the century by revealing how deeply Kurtz's 'unspeakable rites' and 'gratified and monstrous passions' have been accepted by our society." -- The Washington Post