Ian Caldwell was Phi Beta Kappa in History at Princeton University. Dustin Thomason won the Hoopes Prize at Harvard University.
This year's biggest publishing sensation * Guardian * One part The Da Vinci Code, one part The Name of the Rose - A blazingly good yarn [and] an exceptional piece of scholarship ... A smart, swift, multitextured tale that both entertains and informs * San Francisco Chronicle * The Da Vinci Code for people with brains * Independent * A stunning first novel ... if Scott Fitzgerald, Umberto Eco, and Dan Brown teamed up to write a novel, the result would be The Rule of Four. An extraordinary and brilliant accomplishment - a must read * Nelson DeMille * An assured piece of fiction that weaves together the past and the present seamlessly ... I enjoyed it tremendously * Observer *