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The Rule of Four
First published 2004
About the book
“Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renaissance text that has baffled scholars for centuries. Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the five-hundred-year-old Hypnerotomachia may finally reveal its secrets – to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with the book, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it. As the deadline looms, research has stalled – until an ancient diary surfaces. What Tom and Paul discover inside shocks even them: proof that the location of a hidden crypt has been ciphered within the pages of the obscure Renaissance text.”
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“Armed with this final clue, the two friends delve into the bizarre world of the Hypnerotomachia – a world of forgotten erudition, strange sexual appetites, and terrible violence. But just as they begin to realize the magnitude of their discovery, Princeton’s snowy campus is rocked: a longtime student of the book is murdered, shot dead in the hushed halls of the history department.”—BOOK JACKET.
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Catalogue record
- Author
- Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
- Statement
- The Rule of Four / Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason.
Book facts
- Pages
- 372
- ISBN
- 978-0-440-33495-8
4 more ISBNs
- 978-0-440-29640-9
- 978-0-440-24135-5
- 978-0-7862-6799-6
- 978-1-84505-734-3
- Records
- Open Library