Numero Zero

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<p><b>The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the bestselling author of<i>The Name of the Rose</i></b></p><p>1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duces death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy.</p><p>1992, Milan. Colonna takes a job at a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. There he learns the paranoid theories of Braggadocio, who is convinced that Mussolinis corpse was a body-double and part of a wider Fascist plot.</p><p>Colonna is sceptical. 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.</p><p>Fuelled by conspiracy theories, Mafiosi, love, corruption and murder,<i>Numero Zero</i>reverberates with the clash of forces that have shaped Italy since the Second World War. This gripping novel from the author of<i>The Name of the Rose</i>is told with all the power of a master storyteller.</p>

Autorenportrait

<b>Umberto Eco</b>(19322016) wrote fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel,<i>The Name of the Rose</i>, was a major international bestseller. His other works include<i>Foucault's Pendulum</i>,<i>The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino</i>,<i>The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Prague Cemetery</i>and<i>Numero Zero</i>along with many brilliant collections of essays.

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