By Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
An ivy league homicide, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets and techniques of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in The Rule of Four—a terrific paintings of fiction that weaves jointly suspense and scholarship, excessive paintings and incredible treachery.
It's Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling to complete their theses. And scholars, Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris, are a hair's breadth from fixing the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili—a popular textual content attributed to an Italian nobleman, a piece that has baffled students when you consider that its ebook in 1499. For Tom, their learn has been a hyperlink to his family's past—and a disadvantage to the lady he loves. For Paul, it has turn into an obsession, the very explanation for dwelling. yet as their closing date looms, examine has stalled—until a long-lost diary surfaces with an important clue. And whilst a fellow researcher is murdered simply hours later, Tom and Paul notice that they're no longer the 1st to glimpse the Hypnerotomachia 's secrets and techniques.
Suddenly the stakes are raised, and because the buddies sift in the course of the codes and riddles on the middle of the textual content, they're beginnning to work out the manuscript in a brand new light—not easily as a narrative of religion, eroticism and pedantry, yet as a strange, coded mathematical maze. And as they arrive nearer and towards interpreting the ultimate puzzle of a booklet that has shattered careers, friendships and households, they comprehend that their very own lives are in mortal risk. simply because at the very least one individual has been killed for realizing an excessive amount of. they usually be aware of even more.
From the streets of fifteenth-century Rome to the rarified realm of the Ivy League, from a stunning 500 year-old homicide scene to the drama of a tender man's coming of age, The Rule of Four takes us on an wonderful, illuminating journey of history—as it builds to a top of approximately insufferable suspense.
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