The Rule of Four

ian caldwell dustin thomason josh hamilton

It's Easter at Princeton and two students, Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris, are a hair's breadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili -- a renowned text attributed to an Italian nobleman, a work that has baffled scholars since its publication in 1499. But as their deadline looms, research has stalled -- until a long-lost diary surfaces with a vital clue. And when a fellow researcher is murdered just hours later, Tom and Paul realize that they are not the first to glimpse the Hypnerotomachia's secrets.

Genres fictionmysterythrillerhistorical fictionmystery thrillersuspensebooks about booksadventurebook clubhistorical

0 pages, Audio CD

First published April 1,2004

Places

princeton new jersey, columbus ohio, austin texas, genoa, rome, florence tuscany,

This edition

Format: 0 pages, Audio CD
Published: May 1, 2006 by Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio
ISBN: 9780743552127
ASIN: 0743552121
Language: English

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Francesco Colonna

Francesco Colonna (1433/1434 – 1527) was an Italian Dominican priest and monk who was credited with the authorship of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by an acrostic formed by initial letters of the text....
Vincent Taft

Professor in Rule of Four...
Richard Curry

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Thomas Corelli Sullivan

Protagonist and narrating character in The Rule of Four...
Bill Stein

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Patrick Sullivan (rule Of Four)

Father of Thomas c. Sullivan...

About the author

ian caldwell

Ian Caldwell is an American novelist. After graduating from Princeton University in 1998, he and his childhood friend Dustin Thomason co-wrote the semi-autobiographical The Rule of Four, which was published in 2004.
Caldwell and Thomason graduated from the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1994. Caldwell was a Phi Beta Kappa in history at Princeton. In 2005, Caldwell's wife, Meredith, gave birth to their first child, Ethan Sawyer Caldwell. They live in Vienna, Virginia.