Laurent Binet - HHhH (Vintage Publishing)

All the characters in HHhH are real. All the events depicted are true. But alongside the nerve-shredding preparations for the attack on Reinhard Heydrich runs another story: when you are a novelist writing about real people, how do you resist the temptation to make things up? This astonishing novel is a thrilling Second World War assassination story told with rare literary brilliance.