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“On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals―the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado―and to the darker side of life in a resort town.

Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo s well-ordered life is thrown into upheaval; while Ingeborg and Hanna return to their lives in Germany, he refuses to leave the hotel. Soon he and El Quemado are enmeshed in a round of Third Reich, Udo s favorite World War II strategy game, and Udo discovers that the game s consequences may be all too real.

Written in 1989 and found among Roberto Bolaño s papers after his death, The Third Reich is a stunning exploration of memory and violence. Reading this quick, visceral novel, we see a world-class writer coming into his own―and exploring for the first time the themes that would define his masterpieces The Savage Detectives and 2666.”