Endeavoring to decipher a five-hundred-year old text that weaves a mathematical labyrinth within a love story, researchers Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris obtain a diary that may contain the key to the code, but when a fellow researcher is killed, they realize that the book contains a dangerous secret. Reprint.
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"Caldwell and Thomason have created a stunning first novel; a perfect blend of suspense and a sensitive coming of age story. If Scott Fitzgerald, Umberto Eco, and Dan Brown teamed up to write a novel, the result would be The Rule of Four. An extraordinary and brilliant accomplishment—a must read.”—Nelson DeMille
“A marvelous book with a dark Renaissance secret in its coded heart ... Profoundly erudite ... the ultimate puzzle book.” —The New York Times Book Review
"Think Dan Brown by way of Donna Tartt and Umberto Eco ... There are murders, romances, dangers and detection, and by the end the heroes are in a race not only to solve the puzzle, but also to stay alive. Readers might be tempted to buy their own copy of the Hypnerotomachia and have a go at the puzzle." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“As much a blazing good yarn as it is an exceptional piece of scholarship. A smart, swift, multi-textured tale that both entertains and informs.” —San Francisco Chronicle
"An astonishingly good debut ... Academic evil stalks the campus and no one is safe ... Intricate, erudite, and intensely pleasurable."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"The authors, best friends since childhood, have made an impressive debut, a coming-of-age novel in the guise of a thriller." —Booklist
“This debut packs all the esoteric information of The DaVinci Code but with lovely writing reminiscent of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History...a compulsively readable novel.” —People, Critic’s Choice/4 Stars
"In The Rule of Four, Caldwell and Thomason have written a truly satisfying literary thriller ... DO believe the hype. The intense college friendships and their inevitable decline are woven into the thriller's plot. The novel has a darkness that recalls Umberto Eco's monastery thriller, The Name of the Rose, and twinges of Donna Tartt's debut novel set in a boarding school, Secret History. —The New York Post
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Ian Caldwell attended Princeton University, where he studied history. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1998.
Dustin Thomason attended Harvard University, where he studied anthropology and medicine. He won the Hoopes Prize for undergraduate writing, and graduated in 1998. Thomason also received his M.D. and MBA from Columbia University in 2003.
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