The worldwide bestselling novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder from the acclaimed author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery ¶ #1 bestseller in Italy ¶ 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 there: media hoaxes, Mafiosi, the CIA, the Pentagon, blackmail, love, gossip, murder--and clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II, from Mussolini to Berlusconi, that will keep readers turning the pages as the novel's thrilling plot unfolds.
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1945 e 1992 articulam dois momentos históricos em torno da morte de Mussolini e de um jornal emergente em Milão. A trama segue Colonna, escritor contratado para ghostwrite sobre uma publicação bancada por um magnata da mídia. Ao se aproximar da equipe, Colonna descobre teorias de conspiração que envolvem dublês, máfias, agências internacionais e chantagens. Esses elementos alimentam uma investigação que mistura boatos, política e violência. Ambientado na imprensa e na política italiana, o romance recorta episódios que vão de escândalos jornalísticos a manobras de poder. A narrativa explora os meandros do jornalismo, dos interesses econômicos e das rivalidades pessoais em um clima de suspeita.
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