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The Rule of Four
Category: Fiction
Authors: Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
Copyright/published Year: 2004 by Dial Press
ISBN: 0385337116
Binding: Hardcover
An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the
secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in THE RULE OF
FOUR -- a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense
and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery.
It's Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling to finish
their theses. And two students, Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris, are
a hair's breadth from solving the mysteries of the
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili--a renowned text attributed to an
Italian nobleman, a work that has baffled scholars since its
publication in 1499. For Tom, their research has been a link to
his family's past -- and an obstacle to the woman he loves. For
Paul, it has become an obsession, the very reason for living. But
as their deadline looms, research has stalled -- until a
long-lost diary surfaces with a vital clue. And when a fellow
researcher is murdered just hours later, Tom and Paul realize
that they are not the first to glimpse the Hypnerotomachia 's
secrets.
Suddenly the stakes are raised, and as the two friends sift
through the codes and riddles at the heart of the text, they are
beginnning to see the manuscript in a new light--not simply as a
story of faith, eroticism and pedantry, but as a bizarre, coded
mathematical maze. And as they come closer and closer to
deciphering the final puzzle of a book that has shattered
careers, friendships and families, they know that their own lives
are in mortal danger. Because at least one person has been killed
for knowing too much. And they know even more.
From the streets of fifteenth-century Rome to the rarified
realm of the Ivy League, from a shocking 500 year-old murder
scene to the drama of a young man's coming of age, THE RULE OF
FOUR takes us on an entertaining, illuminating tour of
history--as it builds to a pinnacle of nearly unbearable
suspense.
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