by Binet, Laurent
'HHhH blew me away. 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.' Bret Easton Ellis 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'. His boss is Heinrich Himmler but everyone in the SS says 'Himmler's brain is called Heydrich', which in German spells 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? HHhHis 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.
HHhH / Feature / Times
Feature: Times 2012 Christmas books Books of the Year - writers (and rockers) on their books of the year
Star Rating: 3 Stars
HHhH / Feature / Financial Times
Feature: Financial Times Christmas books Books of the Year 2012
Star Rating: 4 Stars
HHhH / Review / Mail on Sunday / Sunday / 31 Mar 2013
Star Rating: 5 Stars
HHhH / Column / Independent / Saturday / 26 Jan 2013
Column: Book of a lifetime
Star Rating: 3 Stars
HHhH / Review / Independent on Sunday / Sunday / 20 Jan 2013
Star Rating: 4 Stars
HHhH / Review / Guardian / Saturday / 19 Jan 2013
Star Rating: 4 Stars
HHhH / Review / Independent / Saturday / 29 Dec 2012
Star Rating: 3 Stars
HHhH / Feature / Irish Times / Saturday / 08 Dec 2012
Feature: Irish Times Books of the Year 2012
Star Rating: 4 Stars
HHhH / Feature / Independent / Saturday / 08 Dec 2012
Feature: Independent Books of the Year 2012 - fiction
Star Rating: 4 Stars
HHhH / Feature / "Sunday Herald, Scotland" / Sunday / 02 Dec 2012
Headline; Stocking thrillers - Books of the year 2012
Star Rating: 4 Stars
HHhH / Review / Daily Telegraph / Saturday / 01 Dec 2012
Star Rating: 5 Stars
HHhH / Feature / Guardian / Saturday / 24 Nov 2012
Feature: Guardian 2012 Books of the Year
Star Rating: 4 Stars
HHhH / Feature / Guardian / Saturday / 24 Nov 2012
Feature: Guardian 2012 Books of the Year
Star Rating: 4 Stars
HHhH / Feature / Daily Telegraph / Saturday / 24 Nov 2012
Feature: The Daily Telegraph 2012 Christmas books - novelists, historians and critics select their personal favourites
Star Rating: 4 Stars
HHhH / Feature / Daily Telegraph / Saturday / 24 Nov 2012
Feature: The Daily Telegraph 2012 Christmas books - novelists, historians and critics select their personal favourites
Star Rating: 4 Stars