His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can’t resist to ghostwrite a book. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain controversial.ġ992, Milan. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. “One of the most influential thinkers of our time.” - Los Angeles Timesġ945, Lake Como. It’s hard not to be charmed.” - New York Times Book Review
This gripping novel from the author of The Name of the Rose is told with all the power of a master storyteller. Fuelled by conspiracy theories, Mafiosi, love, corruption and murder, Numero Zero reverberates with the clash of forces that have shaped Italy since the Second World War. But when a body is found, stabbed to death in a back alley, and the paper is shut down, even he is jolted out of his complacency. There he learns the paranoid theories of Braggadocio, who is convinced that Mussolini s corpse was a body-double and part of a wider Fascist plot.Colonna is sceptical. Colonna takes a job at a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. The precise circumstances of Il Duce s death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy.1992, Milan.
The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose1945, Lake Como.
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