Numero Zero - Umberto Eco
Category: Historical Fiction
Tags: Historical Fiction, Literature
Numero Zero By: Umberto Eco, Richard Dixon - translator Narrated by: Mark Meadows Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 05-11-2015 Language: English Publisher: Random House AudioBooks, Lake Como, 1945. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duces death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy., Milan, 1992. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he cant refuse to ghostwrite 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 Mussolinis corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. Its the scoop he desperately needs. The evidence? Hes 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, lov
