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Book Review of The Rule Of Four

The Rule Of Four
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Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the even of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypernotomachia Poliphill, a Renaissance text that has baffled scholars for centuries. As the deadline looms, reserach 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, with their two roommates, into a fiery drama spun from a book whose power and meaning have long been misunderstood.......