ECO, UMBERTO — The Prague Cemetery

Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin. 2011, First American Edition. (ISBN: 9780547577531). Hard Cover. Signed by author on title page. DJ in mylar. Nineteenth-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. 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. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus.. Fine/Fine. Signed by Author.