Numero Zero

<strong>The worldwide bestselling novel about the murky world of media politics conspiracy and murder from the acclaimed author of <em>The Name of the Rose</em> and <em>The Prague Cemetery</em> ¶ #1 bestseller in Italy ¶</strong> 1945 Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. 1992 Milan. Colonna a depressed hack writer is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. His subject: a fledgling newspaper which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team he learns of the editor's paranoid theory that Mussolini's corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. It's the scoop the newspaper desperately needs. The evidence? He's working on it. It's all there: media hoaxes Mafiosi the CIA the Pentagon blackmail love gossip murder--and clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II from Mussolini to Berlusconi that will keep readers turning the pages as the novel's thrilling plot unfolds.