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 Âķ #1 bestseller in Italy Âķ 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duceâs death remain controversial. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he canât 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 editorâs paranoid theory that Mussoliniâs corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. Itâs the scoop the newspaper desperately needs. The evidence? Heâs working on it. Itâs all there: media hoaxes, Mafiosi, the CIA, the Pentagon, blackmail, love, gossip, murderâand clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II, from Mussolini to Berlusconi, that will keep readers turning the pages as the novelâs thrilling plot unfolds.