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The Third Reich was written by Roberto Bolaño in 1989 and found among his papers after his death in 2003 and serves as an early example of the literary genius coming into his own. In this mesmerizing and engrossing tale, the German war games champion Udo Berger and his girlfriend Ingeborg visit the resort town of Costa Brava in Spain where Udo’s family vacationed in his youth. While Ingeborg is out making new friends and laying out on the beach, Udo is in his room obsessing over the war game Third Reich and writing papers on new strategies. In a strange turn of events, a new friend from the trip goes missing and Udo refuses to leave the town until the body is found, despite the fact that the city is quickly being drained of vacationers (including Ingeborg) as the weather shifts. During th...