{"product_id":"book-cius","title":"Numero Zero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the best-selling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/em\u003e, an enthralling new conspiracy thriller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1945, LAKE COMO.\u003c\/strong\u003e Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain controversial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1992, MILAN.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eIt’s all there: 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. “Farcical, serious, satiric, and tragic” (\u003cem\u003eLe Point\u003c\/em\u003e, France), \u003cem\u003eNumero Zero\u003c\/em\u003e is the work of a master storyteller.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49386507927856,"sku":"BDcius","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49386507960624,"sku":"ZEcius","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49386508026160,"sku":"40cius","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/453893-cius-Square.jpg?v=1735169964","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cius","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}