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1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can’t refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His subject: a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team, 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. It’s the scoop he desperately needs. The evidence? He’s working on it.
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.
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"A triumph" (Scotland on Sunday)
"A smart, modern mystery" (Justine Carbery Independent)
"A novel for our times" (Irish News)
"Brims with exuberant inventiveness" (Terry Eagleton Times Literary Supplement)
"Combines farce and conspiracy thriller while retaining the author’s familiar sense of detachment" (Anthony Cummins Guardian)
"Cynical but heartfelt, utterly flippant yet deadly serious" (Mark Sanderson The Times)
"A 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 Ore)
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"A smart, modern mystery" (Justine Carbery Independent)
"A novel for our times" (Irish News)
"Brims with exuberant inventiveness" (Terry Eagleton Times Literary Supplement)
"Combines farce and conspiracy thriller while retaining the author’s familiar sense of detachment" (Anthony Cummins Guardian)
"Cynical but heartfelt, utterly flippant yet deadly serious" (Mark Sanderson The Times)
"A 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 Ore)
The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the internationally bestselling author of The Name of the Rose
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1910701084
- ISBN 13 9781910701089
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