Author:Umberto Eco,Richard Dixon
The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose
1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy.
1992, Milan. Colonna takes a job at a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. There he learns the paranoid theories of Braggadocio, who is convinced that Mussolini’s corpse was a body-double and part of a wider Fascist plot.
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, Numero Zero reverberates with the clash of forces that have shaped Italy since the Second World War. This gripping novel from the author of The Name of the Rose is told with all the power of a master storyteller.
A triumph
—— Scotland on SundayA smart, modern mystery
—— Justine Carbery , IndependentA novel for our times
—— Irish NewsBrims with exuberant inventiveness
—— Terry Eagleton , Times Literary SupplementCombines farce and conspiracy thriller while retaining the author’s familiar sense of detachment
—— Anthony Cummins , GuardianCynical but heartfelt, utterly flippant yet deadly serious
—— Mark Sanderson , The TimesA conte philosophique on our tendency to see conspiracies everywhere… in the end, a damning confirmation of the long moral and civic decline of Italy over the past fifty years
—— Il Sole 24 OreEco’s novel on post-War Italy inevitably turns into a detective story. But it's one without a culprit: like all the great detective stories of [Italy’s] recent history...[which] Eco revisits at high speed in this fast-paced, frequently entertaining novel
—— La StampaPractically a manual on today’s media
—— Roberto Saviano , L'EspressoA kaleidoscopic, playful, yet deadly serious satire
—— Catholic HeraldThrillingly tense and twisty, a great read
—— B. A. ParisA heart-thumping psychological mystery that ticks all the boxes . . . with twists galore, it's impossible to guess the shocking ending
—— SagaFast-paced and chock-full of twists, Last Seen Alive is both absorbing and gripping. After reading it you'll never dream of a house swap again
—— Paula DalyThrilling . . . superb plotting. I could hardly catch my breath between twists!
—— Jenny BlackhurstIt's so twisty, turning and grippy. Highly recommend it!
—— Gilly MacmillanI love stories where you're not quite sure who is telling the truth! This one kept me guessing
—— Jane Corry
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