A chilling, tightly written story of WWII, about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942 in Prague. It's a story that took me right from the start, and one that has stuck with me. Along with the historical story, there is also Binet's personal story about researching and writing the book. Tak...
An incredibly clever, fascinating, completely gripping metafictional historical novel about Reinhard Heydrich, architect of Hitler's Final Solution, and his assassination in Prague. Brilliant!
Starts off a bit slow, but the ending was interesting enough. I can't say I really enjoyed Sam Taylor's writing style, but the idea behind it held the book up. I couldn't help comparing this one with Timothy Findley's "Not Wanted On the Voyage", though the two stories are unbelievably different, I w...
I read many positive reviews about this WWII historical novel and looked forward to reading it, especially since it took place in Prague. For the first half of the book, I did not mind the author's interjections about the research progress and such. Near the end, I found it quite distracting and a...
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