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On holiday together with his partner, Ingeborg, the German battle activities champ Udo Berger returns to a little area on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his youth. Quickly they fulfill another visiting German pair, Charly and Hanna, who expose them to some group of locals—the Hair, the Lamb, and El Quemado—and towards the deeper side of life in a resort town.Late one-night, Charly vanishes with no trace, and Udo’s well ordered life is thrown into turmoil; while Ingeborg and Hanna go back to their lives in Germany, he will not leave the lodge. Quickly he and El Quemado are enmeshed in a circular of Third Reich, Udo’s preferred World-War II strategy game, and Udo finds the game’s effects might be alltoo real.Written in 1989 and discovered among Roberto Bolaño’s documents after his death, The Third Reich is just a spectacular exploration of storage and assault. Scanning this fast, visceral book, we visit a world class author entering his own—and exploring for the very first time the styles that will determine his projects The Savage Investigators and 2666.