The Rule Of Four

ian caldwell jeff woodman dustin thomason

"Princeton University seniors Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris are struggling to solve the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachai Poliphili, a cryptic text that has baffled scholars for 500 years. When a long-lost clue surfaces, they have a chance to decipher the final secret. But then a fellow scholar of the text is murdered for knowing too much, and Tom and Paul make a frightening realization - they know even more"--Container.

Genres fictionmysterythrillerhistorical fictionmystery thrillersuspensebooks about booksadventurebook clubhistorical

0 pages, Audio Cassette

First published April 1,2004

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

This edition

Format: 0 pages, Audio Cassette
Published: January 1, 2004 by Recorded Books
ISBN: 9781419309274
ASIN: 1419309277
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.