Numero Zero
- Author Umberto Eco
- Narrator Mark Meadows
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 5 hours and 15 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical crime and mysteries, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction.
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What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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A triumph
Scotland on Sunday -
A smart, modern mystery
Independent -
A novel for our times
Irish News -
Brims with exuberant inventiveness
Times Literary Supplement -
Combines farce and conspiracy thriller while retaining the author’s familiar sense of detachment
Guardian
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