Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracies both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot
against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals
plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret
service perpetrating forgeries plots and massacres. But what if behind all of this lay just
one man? Eco's biggest novel since THE NAME OF THE ROSE is a thrilling tale of murder and
intrigue.
