Summary
"A novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder."-- Provided by publisher. Full description
Summary: |
"A novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder."-- Provided by publisher. 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. 1992, Milan. 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. It's all here: 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. --From book jacket. |
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Item Description: |
Originally published in Italian: 1. ed. Bompiani. [Milan, Italy] : Bompiani, 2015. |
Physical Description: |
191 pages ; 22 cm |
ISBN: |
9780544635081 (hardcover) 0544635086 (hardcover) |
Author Notes: |
(Bowker Author Biography) |