M+B+M. Josef Mašín, Josef Balabán, Václav Morávek. Three Kings from the Nazi occupation.
Unquestionable heroes who did not hesitate to take risks and lay down their lives for the liberation of Czechoslovakia. And yet they were also normal people longing for ordinary things like love, family or a quiet evening without fear of who would knock on the door of the conspiracy apartment...
Dalibor Vácha's novel M+B+M tells the story of the resistance activities of these three great figures of Czechoslovak history from 1939 until their very end. He vividly describes all their adventurous and dangerous escapades and the gradually growing fatigue of living in conspiratorial apartments, on the edge of life and death every day, when the enemy can be around every corner and even a close friend can be a traitor.
All this is illustrated by the gloomy, claustrophobic atmosphere of occupied Prague, full of Gestapo and spies, depopulated streets and fear lying on this beautiful city like a thick blanket. A world where you didn't know the day or night when the Gestapo would arrest you and put you up against the wall...