# Numero Zero by Umberto Eco (Paperback)

"**The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the bestselling author of _The Name of the Rose_** 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 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."

## Details

- **Price:** 8.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Penguin Random House
- **Tags:** All, thrillers

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