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Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border: an urban sprawl that draws lost souls to it like a vortex.Convicts and academics find themselves here, as does an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, ‘missing’ author. But, there is a darker side to the town. Girls and women are disappearing at an alarming rate.As a sense of conspiracy grows and an apocalyptic shadow draws closer, the corruption, violence and decadence of twentieth-century history reveals itself in a novel of an astonishing scale and burning intensity.TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMERA landmark in whats possible for the novel. Bolao has proven it can do anything New York TimesWondrous… Unforgettable…will resonate for years to come Daily TelegraphAs riveting as any top-notch thriller… 2666 achieves something extremely rare in fiction: it provides an all-encompassing view of our world Sunday Times