Numero Zero

<b>From the best-selling author of <i>The Name of the Rose</i> and <i>The Prague Cemetery,</i> a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder</b><br><br> A newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news.<br> <br> A paranoid editor, walking through the streets of Milan, reconstructing fifty years of history against the backdrop of a plot involving the cadaver of Mussolini's double.<br> <br> The murder of Pope John Paul I, the CIA, red terrorists handled by secret services, twenty years of bloodshed, and events that seem outlandish until the BBC proves them true.<br> <br> A fragile love story between two born losers, a failed ghost writer, and a vulnerable girl, who specializes in celebrity gossip yet cries over the second movement of Beethoven's Seventh. And then a dead body that suddenly appears in a back alley in Milan. <br> <br> Set in 1992 and foreshadowing the mysteries and follies of the following twenty years, <i>Numero Zero</i> is a scintillating take on our times from the best-selling author of <i>The Name of the Rose </i>and <i>Foucault's Pendulum.</i>