Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. Hes intelligent and popularbut haunted by the violent death several years earlier of his father anacademic who... » 

Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. Hes intelligent and popularbut haunted by the violent death several years earlier of his father anacademic who devoted his life to studying one of the rarest most complex andmost valuable books in the world. Since its publication in 1499 TheHypnerotomachia Poliphili has baffled scholars who have tried to understandits many mysteries. Coded in seven languages the text is at once a passionatelove story an intricate mathematical labyrinth and a tale of arcanebrutality. Paul Harris Toms roommate has deeply personal reasons of his ownfor wanting to unveil the secrets the book hides. When a longlost diarysurfaces it seems the two friends have found the key to the labyrinth butwhen a fellow researcher is murdered only hours later they suddenly findthemselves in great danger. And what they discover embedded in the text stunsthem a narrative detailing the passion of a Renaissance prince a hiddencrypt and a secret worth dying to protect. «