Numero Zero

The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose1945, 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 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.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.

Product details

• Authors: Umberto Eco, Eco Umberto
• Assisted by: Richard Dixon (Translation), Dixon Richard (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.07.2016
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781784701826
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-182-6
• Pages: 272
• Dimensions (packing): 13 x 19.7 x 1.7 cm
• Subjects: Italienische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Mystery, Thriller, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Historical mysteries, Historical fiction, Detective, Mussolini, Fiction, Berlusconi, police, Crime, Historical, Thriller / suspense fiction, Alternate History, Fatherland, Murder, Murder Mystery, Crime and mystery fiction, Freemasons, Historical crime and mysteries, Conspiracy Theories, Mysteries, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, summer reads, Novels, historical mystery, fiction books, books fiction, mystery books, book club books, historical fiction books, crime books, good books, historical books, murder mystery books, detective novels, historical novels, books historical fiction, good books to read, dan brown da vinci code, foucault's pendulum, name of the rose