When Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, suddenly comes upon the one chance to change his life and career forever, he doesn’t hesitate to seize it: a Brueghel painting, hidden away and forgotten in an old country home. Increasingly obsessed with the painting, Martin finds himself drawn, step by step, into a moral and intellectual labyrinth, lured by the dangerous promises of financial and professional ambitions. Profound, funny and erudite, HEADLONG is a plain delight.