"A biography of Reinhard Heydrich and his wife, Lina von Osten Heydrich"-- Provided by publisher.

Starting out. The face of National Socialism -- Child of uncertainty -- The honor of an officer -- The honor of a woman -- Heinrich Himmler : the great enigma -- Fate, or "work in relation to life's possibilities" -- Gathering power. Bitter young men, bright young men : Heydrich's SD -- The evil twins -- The road to Berlin -- The rules of the game -- A lesson in life -- Exercising power. Transformations of our struggle : the invisible apparat -- The expert on the forms of words -- "Garbage can of the Third Reich" -- The house across the way -- Drawing the line : the Abwehr resistance -- The Night of Broken Glass -- Inside the spider's web -- The second sex in the Third Reich -- A disgrace--for Germany -- Going to war. "Perfectly normal men" -- The road to Wannsee -- The Wansee Conference -- Reichsprotektor : Bohemia & Moravia. The castle -- The fatal crown -- The road to Jungfern-Breschan -- The temple of fear -- Afterward. Surviving death and defeat.