The Rule of Four
About this 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." "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.
Subjects
- appreciation
- chang pian xiao shuo
- college students
- college students -- fiction
- colonna, francesco, d. 1527 hypnerotomachia poliphili -- fiction
- fathers and sons
- fathers and sons -- fiction
- fathers and sons, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, coming of age
- fiction, suspense
- fiction, thrillers
- fiction, thrillers, suspense
- friendship, fiction
- hypnerotomachia poliphili (colonna, francesco)
- italian literature
- italian literature -- appreciation -- fiction
- large type books
- male friendship
- male friendship -- fiction
- new jersey, fiction
- princeton (n.j.) -- fiction
- suspense fiction
- united states, fiction
- young men
- young men -- fiction