Description
In 1945, on Lake Como, Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans, but the precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. In 1992 Milan, Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he cannot refuse to ghost-write a memoir about a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns about Braggadocio’s paranoid theories. Braggadocio is convinced that Mussolini’s corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot, and this is the scoop he desperately needs. 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, this gripping novel reverberates with the clash of forces that have shaped Italy since the Second World War.
Information
Author: Eco Umberto
Language: English
Publication date: July 21, 2016
Manufacturer: Bohemian Ventures, spol. s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Fiction in english, English novels
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 258
ISBN/EAN: 9781784701833