{"product_id":"numero-zero","title":"Numero Zero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Eco combines his delight in suspense with astute political satire in this brainy, funny, neatly lacerating thriller.” —\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1945, Lake Como.\u003c\/strong\u003e Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain controversial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1992, Milan.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt'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. \u003cem\u003eNumero Zero \u003c\/em\u003eis the work of a master storyteller. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Although \u003cem\u003eNumero Zero \u003c\/em\u003etakes place in 1992, Eco may as well be describing our current journalistic landscape of hot takes and click bait.” —\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Readers of Elena Ferrante or Rachel Kushner will likely catch the barbs in [Eco’s] clever absurdities.” —\u003cem\u003eVulture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Umberto Eco","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":55253714632995,"sku":"9780544811836","price":11.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780544811836.jpg?v=1781821984","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/numero-zero","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}