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500 Years ago the first men were murdered to protect the secret.
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June 2005
464 pages
ISBN: 0440241359
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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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