Headhunter (Slade)

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Headhunter is the first novel, published in 1984, of the Special X series by Michael Slade.

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Members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police pursue a serial murderer who decapitates victims in Vancouver and taunts the police with severed heads. The novel lays the groundwork for what would eventually become the Special X series. Slade focuses on the fear of decapitation, gender politics, the history of the North West Mounted Police, and the legacy of criminal insanity passed between generations.

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