The Third Reich: A Novel

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

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 summers as a child. There, they meet another vacationing German couple, who introduce them to the darker side of the resort town’s life. Soon Udo is enmeshed in a round of Third Reich, his favorite World War II strategy game, with a shadowy local called El Quemado. As the game draws to its conclusion, Udo dis...