Numero Zero
1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain shrouded.. Lire la suite
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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.
1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack
writer, is offered a fee he can't refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His
subject: a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. As
Colonna gets to know the team, 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. It's the scoop he desperately needs.
The evidence? He's working on it.
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.
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. This gripping
novel from the author of The Name of the Rose is told with all the power
of a master storyteller.
