The late Chilean writer Roberto Bola?o has been called the Garcia Marquez of his generation.The Savage Detectives is a hilarious and sexy, meandering and melancholy, companionable and complicated road trip through Mexico City, Barcelona, Israel, Liberia, and finally the desert of northern Mexico. It is the first of Bola?o's two giant works, with 2666, to be translated into English and is already being hailed as a masterpiece.