The Third Reich

ISBN: 0374275629 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9780374275624 (hbk.)
Physical Description: 277 p. ; 24 cm. print
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

Bolaño, Roberto 1953-2003 (Author). Wimmer, Natasha. (Added Author).

Summary: "On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game 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; when 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, his favorite World War II strategy game, and Udo discovers that the game's consequences may be all too real."--Provided by publisher.