A legendary novel about the city of Santa Teresa, located on the Mexican-American border, where prisoners and academics collide, an American journalist, a mad philosopher and a mysterious hermit writer This city is hiding a terrible secret . Here women are killed, the number of deaths is growing every day, and for many years the authorities can not do anything about it. Santa Teresa is shrouded in darkness, whether the city is a serial killer, whether everything is connected by a web of large-scale conspiracy, and the farther, the greater paranoia engulfs its inhabitants. And the roots of this epidemic of cruelty go to Europe, the United States and even the battlefields of World War II. Five parts, five genres, dozens of actors, a large-scale geography of events - all this is "2666", a mysterious postmodern puzzle, one of the main novels of the beginning of the XXI century.