Title: The Rule of Four
Description: "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: Male friendship, Fiction, College students, Fathers and sons, Italian literature, Young men, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Colonna, Francesco), Appreciation, Suspense fiction, Colonna, Francesco, d. 1527 Hypnerotomachia Poliphili -- Fiction, Young men -- Fiction, Male friendship -- Fiction, College students -- Fiction, Fathers and sons -- Fiction, Italian literature -- Appreciation -- Fiction, Princeton (N.J.) -- Fiction, Chang pian xiao shuo, Large type books, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, New jersey, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, United states, fiction
Places: Princeton (N.J.), United States, New Jersey, Princeton
People: Francesco Colonna (d. 1527), Francesco Colonna (-1527)