There are no such things as poltergeists, only in films. Ah, you singles! Exit neighbor: now even she talks English.

She opened the cupboard beneath the sink, moved something, and the water was on. Good heavens! But don’t you turn off the water and gas when you’re away for a week? Me, no. Haven’t been here long, you know, don’t get home till late. You must have closed the valve, she said. I knocked next door: everything was fine there. Gurgle, gurgle, two sounds like a baby’s burp, then nothing. This book was originally published in Italian with the title Numero Zero by Bompiani, Milan, 2015.Ĭover photograph © Françoise Lacroix/ ISBN 978-6-3 (trade paper international edition) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. Read moreĬopyright © 2015 by Bompiani / RCS Libri S.p.A.Įnglish translation copyright © 2015 by Richard Dixonįirst published in Great Britain in 2015 by Harvill Seckerįor information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016. It’s all there: media hoaxes, Mafiosi, the CIA, the Pentagon, blackmail, love, gossip, murder-and clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II, from Mussolini to Berlusconi, that will keep readers turning the pages as the novel’s thrilling plot unfolds. It’s the scoop the newspaper desperately needs. 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. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate.

Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can’t resist to ghostwrite a book. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain controversial. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The worldwide bestselling novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder from the acclaimed author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery ¶ #1 bestseller in Italy ¶ 1945, Lake Como.

Numero zero by umberto eco