Numero Zero: An Acclaimed Political Thriller Unraveling Mussolini's Conspiracy, Media Hoaxes, and Italian History

ISBN: 0544811836

Author: Eco, Umberto

Condition: New

Eco combines his delight in suspense with astute political satire in this brainy, funny, neatly lacerating thriller. -Booklist1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duces death remain controversial.1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he cant 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 editors paranoid theory that Mussolinis corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. Its the scoop the newspaper desperately needs. The evidence? Hes working on it.It's all there: media hoaxes, Mafiosi, the CIA, the Pentagon, blackmail, love, gossip, and murder. A clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II-from Mussolini to Berlusconi. Numero Zero is the work of a master storyteller.Although Numero Zero takes place in 1992, Eco may as well be describing our current journalistic landscape of hot takes and click bait. -Los Angeles TimesReaders of Elena Ferrante or Rachel Kushner will likely catch the barbs in [Ecos] clever absurdities. -Vulture