{"product_id":"the-rule-of-four-a-novel","title":"The Rule of Four: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Caldwell, Ian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e RANDOM HOUSE GROUP\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e Multicolor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatures:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eDial Press\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Deckle Edge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 21-08-2012\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385337120\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\n“One part The Da Vinci Code, one part The Name of the Rose and one part A Separate Peace . . . a smart, swift, multitextured tale that both entertains and informs.”—San Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two friends are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the\u003cbr\u003e\nHypnerotomachia 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\u003cbr\u003e\nHypnerotomachia may finally reveal its secrets—to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with the book, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it.\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n As the deadline looms, research has stalled—until a vital clue is unearthed: a long-lost diary that may prove to be the key to deciphering the ancient text. But when a longtime student of the book is murdered just hours later, a chilling cycle of deaths and revelations begins—one that will force Tom and Paul into a fiery drama, spun from a book whose power and meaning have long been misunderstood.\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Profoundly erudite . . . the ultimate puzzle-book.”—The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\n“Profoundly erudite . . . the ultimate puzzle-book.”—\u003cbr\u003e\nThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n“One part\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Da Vinci Code, one part\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Name of the Rose and one part\u003cbr\u003e\nA Separate Peace . . . a smart, swift, multitextured tale that both entertains and informs.”—\u003cbr\u003e\nSan Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n“Ingenious . . . The real treat here is the process of discovery.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n “Compulsively readable.”—\u003cbr\u003e\nPeople (4 stars)\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n “If F. Scott Fitzgerald, Umberto Eco, and Dan Brown teamed up to write a novel, the result would be\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Rule of Four.”—Nelson DeMille\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nIan Caldwell is the author of a forthcoming novel set inside the Vatican. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in European history from Princeton University, and lives near Washington, D.C., with his wife and three sons.\u003cbr\u003e\nDustin Thomason is also the author of\u003cbr\u003e\n12.21.\u003cbr\u003e\n He graduated from Harvard College and received his M.D. from Columbia University. Thomason has written and produced several television series, including\u003cbr\u003e\nLie to Me. He lives in Venice Beach, California. The two have been best friends since they were eight years old.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.      \u003cbr\u003e\nChapter One\u003cbr\u003e\nStrange thing, time. It weighs most on those who have it least. Nothing is lighter than being young with the world on your shoulders; it gives you a feeling of possibility so seductive, you know there must be something more important you could be doing than studying for exams.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nI can see myself now, the night it all began. I'm lying back on the old red sofa in our dorm room, wrestling with Pavlov and his dogs in my introductory psychology book, wondering why I never fulfilled my science requirement as a freshman like everyone else. A pair of letters sits on the coffee table in front of me, each containing a vision of what I could be doing next year. The night of Good Friday has fallen, cold April in Princeton, New Jersey, and with only a month of college left I'm no different from anyone else in the class of 1999: I'm having trouble getting my mind off the future.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nCharlie is sitting on the floor by the cube refrigerator, playing with the Magnetic Shakespeare someone left in our room last week. The Fitzgerald novel he's supposed to be reading for his final paper in English 151w is spread open on the floor with its spine broken, like a butterfly somebody stepped on, and he's forming and re-forming sentences from magnets with Shakespearean words on them. If you ask him why he's not reading Fitzgerald, he'll grunt and say there's no\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\npoint. As far as he's concerned, literature is just an educated man's shell game, three-card monte for the college crowd: what you see is never what you get. For a science-minded guy like Charlie, that's the height of perversity. 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