{"product_id":"numero-zero-an-acclaimed-political-thriller-unraveling-mussolinis-conspiracy-media-hoaxes-and-italian-history-0544811836","title":"Numero Zero: An Acclaimed Political Thriller Unraveling Mussolini's Conspiracy, Media Hoaxes, and Italian History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0544811836\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Eco, Umberto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEco 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52158614110496,"sku":"NEW0544811836","price":12.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61zPBHr1mTL.jpg?v=1786081917","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/numero-zero-an-acclaimed-political-thriller-unraveling-mussolinis-conspiracy-media-hoaxes-and-italian-history-0544811836","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}