The Rule of Four

Century, London, 2004. 160 x 240 mm, 372 pp. Hard Cover, corners bumped, contents are sound, clean - overall a very nice copy in a like unclipped dw. Debut novel that became a phenomenal best-seller and when it was released it was described as one of the best literary mysteries of the last ten years. It concerns Princeton students looking to solve a centuries old mystery about the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, an historically rare and valuable book . From the publisher: One part The Da Vinci Code, one part The Name of the Rose and one part A Separate Peace . . . a smart, swift, multi-textured tale that both entertains and informs.San Francisco Chronicle Profoundly erudite . . . the ultimate puzzle-book.The New York Times Book Review Ingenious . . . The real treat here is the process of discovery.The New York Times Compulsively readable.People (4 stars) If F. Scott Fitzgerald, Umberto Eco, and Dan Brown teamed up to write a novel, the result would be The Rule of Four.Nelson DeMille A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two friends 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 secretsto Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with the book, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it.