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. His boss is Heinrich Himmler but everyone in the SS says #145;Himmler#146;s brain is called Heydrich#146;, which in German spells out HHhH. All the characters in HHhH 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? #145; HHhH blew me away. Binet#146;s style fuses it all together: a neutral journalistic honesty sustained with a fiction writer#146;s zeal and story-telling instincts. It#146;s one of the best historical novels I#146;ve ever come across#146; Bret Easton Ellis #145;Brilliant#146; Sunday Times #145;Thrilling#146; Observer #145;Extraordinary#146; The Times #145;Exciting#146; Spectator #145; Utterly compelling and ruthlessly fascinating#146; Irish Times.