A review by abroadwell
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño

4.0

Bolaño had a masterful way of creating suspense and writing dialogue. This novel really gets at the creepy psychological undertones of playing war games in which the death and destruction of millions is abstracted away to a question of moves and strategy. For Udo, the death of his real life friend and the loss of his job and girlfriend are no more important than the deployment of his imaginary troops.