Numero Zero
About this book
"A novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder."--
1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't 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 editor's paranoid theory that Mussolini's corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. It's the scoop the newspaper desperately needs, The evidence? He's working on it. It's all here: 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. --From book jacket.
Subjects
- alternative histories (fiction)
- assassination
- autores
- chantaje
- conspiracies
- conspiraciones
- continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- corrupt practices
- diarios
- editores financieros
- extortion
- ficción
- fiction
- fiction, alternative history
- fiction / literary
- fiction / mystery & detective / historical
- fiction / mystery & detective / international crime & mystery
- fiction, political
- fiction / satire
- fiction, satire
- fiction / thrillers / psychological
- ghostwriters
- italian political satire
- italian social satire
- italy, fiction
- journalism
- journalistes
- literary
- literature
- man-woman relationships
- modern civilization
- mystery
- newspaper publishing
- newspapers
- novela
- political satire
- presse satirique
- publishers and publishing
- relaciones hombre-mujer
- romans, nouvelles
- satire
- social satire
- truthfulness and falsehood
- verdad y mentira