

Because of these variations, the roaster must be both artist and scientist to ensure quality and consistency. Each of these areas have wide variations in plant types, climate, harvest periods and transportation, all of which contribute to the multiple grades and quality of the beans produced. There are around 80 coffee growing countries in the world, spread across four continents, between the Tropic of Cancer to the north and the Tropic of Capricorn to the South. It’s all there: media hoaxes, Mafiosi, the CIA, the Pentagon, blackmail, love, gossip, murder-and clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II, from Mussolini to Berlusconi, that will keep readers turning the pages as the novel’s thrilling plot unfolds.Blending different types of coffee from various parts of the world is a passionate Italian tradition.Ī well-balanced premium blend is made by combining various amounts of diverse varietals from numerous origins, and then roasting them to bring out the best of their individual characteristics.

It’s the scoop the newspaper desperately needs. 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. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can’t resist to ghostwrite a book. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain controversial.

Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. 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 ¶ #1 bestseller in Italy ¶ 1945, Lake Como.
