PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780374275624
- Categories BX, BXOS, Crime, F CTM, Fiction, H/C, IM1, Mystery and Thriller, RM 10 - RM 19.99
- Author(s) Bolaño, Roberto
- Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux
- Pages 288
- Format Hardcover
- Dimensions 23.6cm x 2.6cm x 16.1cm
- Weight 0.431 kg
product description
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.