false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179942234m/975631.jpg 975631 12 It doesn't take long to discover the literary classic at the heart of Timothy Findley's dystopian novel <I>Headhunter</I>. Lilah Kemp, schizophrenic and one of a triumvirate of main characters, announces in the opening scene that she may have released the character of Kurtz from the pages of Joseph Conrad's novel <I>Heart of Darkness</I>. Add to this fantastic formula a couple of psychiatrists named Charles Marlow and Rupert Kurtz and a huge cast of secondary players set in a futuristic pollution- and plague-ravaged Toronto, and you are left with a bizarre reinterpretation of not just one of the classics of literature, but the age-old tale of power and corruption itself. Conrad did not invent this story, Findley shrewdly points out; he just gave it a name: Kurtz. <P> This is vintage Findley, who similarly re-imagined the Old Testament story of Noah and the Flood in <I>Not Wanted on the Voyage</I>. <I>Headhunter</I> is another example of Findley's ability to blend morality and entertainment. Findley's willingness to blend literature and pulp is <I>Headhunter</I>'s greatest asset. You can get lost in the rollicking good fun of the sci-fi dystopia or you can dredge its depths for literary clues. Or you can do both. 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