# Headhunters

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- Book: [Headhunters](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-king/headhunters) ([Headhunters.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-king/headhunters.md))
- Authors: [John King](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-king)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9973-951-7
- Pages: 320
- Published: 1998-05-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Following on from his bestselling study of violence, The Football Factory , John King considers Britain's other obsession - sex. Formed in the chemical mists of New Year's Eve, The Sex Division sees the once sacred act of procreation at its most material, as five men devise a system based on the sexual act. In this lager-soaked league, the most that women can offer a man is 4 points - unless, that is, she leaves her handbag unattended... From its base in the asset-stripped, emotionally castrated 90s, Headhunters shows the dreams of The Sex Division members breaking through the heavy media cloud of anorexic pin-ups and paedophile fashion. A missing brother, prophetic visions, a love affair, and tit-for-tat confrontation draw the characters out into the open - revealing the men behind the machismo, their need for mutual respect, and their recognition of the hidden or suppressed affinities.