Numero Zero

Numero Zero

<DIV><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></DIV>