Imagines the story of two Czechoslovakian partisans responsible for assassinating the "Butcher of Prague" Reinhard Heydrich, tracing their escape from the Nazis and recruitment by the British secret service.
Laurent Binet's captivating debut novel follows the lives of Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis, the men responsible for the death of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most feared men in Nazi Germany.
