HHhH

“Captivating . . . [HHhH] has a vitality very different from that of most historical fiction.” —James Wood The New Yorker The basis for the major motion picture The Man with the Iron Heart available on streaming and home video.. HHhH: Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich or Himmler's brain is called Heydrich. The most lethal man in Hitler's cabinet Reinhard Heydrich seemed indestructible—until two exiled operatives a Slovak and a Czech killed him and changed the course of history.. In Laurent Binet's mesmerizing debut we follow Jozef Gabcík and Jan Kubiš from their dramatic escape from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to their fatal attack on Heydrich and their own brutal deaths in the basement of a Prague church. A seamless blend of memory actuality and Binet's own remarkable imagination HHhH is at once thrilling and intellectually engrossing—a fast-paced novel of the Second World War that is also a profound meditation on the debt we owe to history.. A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice