This short (for Eco) story involves conspiracies, a newspaper only interested in reporting the awful, a loser news reporter who becomes editor, and his love interest, another reporter whose main work has been celebrity gossip. Beginning in 1992, the story involves conspiracy theories about the murder of Pope John Paul I, a Mussolini cadaver body double, terrorists, and other convoluted events. This was the last novel published before Eco's death and it feels a little unfinished or perhaps just unpolished. There is some of the random, quirky, humor common in his other works but the story just seems to be missing something.
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