Numero Zero

<p><strong>The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the bestselling author of <em>The Name of the Rose.</em></strong></p> <p>1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy.<br /><br />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 Mussolini's corpse was a body-double and part of a wider Fascist plot.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />Fuelled by conspiracy theories, Mafiosi, love, corruption and murder,<em> Numero Zero</em> reverberates with the clash of forces that have shaped Italy since the Second World War. This gripping novel from the author of <em>The Name of the Rose</em> is told with all the power of a master storyteller.</p>