Hhhh

Synopsis

<p>'HHhH <i>blew me away.</i> <i>Binet�s style fuses it all together: a neutral, journalistic honesty sustained with a fiction writer�s zeal and story-telling instincts. It�s one of the best historical novels I�ve ever come across.</i>'</p><p> Bret Easton Ellis</p><p> </p><p> Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangerous man in the Third Reich'. </p><p> </p><p> His boss is Heinrich Himmler but everyone in the SS says 'Himmler's brain is called Heydrich', which in German spells HHhH. </p><p> </p><p> All the characters in <i>HHhH</i> are real. All the events depicted are true. But alongside the nerve-shredding preparations for the attack runs another story: when you are a novelist writing about real people, how do you resist the temptation to make things up?</p><p> </p><p> <i>HHhH</i> is a panorama of the Third Reich told through the life of one outstandingly brutal man, a story of unbearable heroism and loyalty, revenge and betrayal. It is improbably entertaining and electrifyingly modern, a moving and shattering work of fiction.</p>