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The title is an acronym for the German phrase Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich, (“Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich”). This is the story of Operation Anthropoid, which was the 1942 plot to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia and known as the Butcher of Prague. In an ingenious approach to writing historical fiction, Binet tells the story in 270 short chapters with incessant authorial intrusions on how he came to write the book, his research, and his views on invention vs. historical fact in fiction.