Enjoy reading february 2016

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February 2016 ENGLISH READING CLUB ENJOY READING! IAN CALDWELL & DUSTIN THOMASON

The rule of four

Ian Caldwell (1976, Virginia, USA)

Ian Caldwell was born and raised in Fairfax County, Virginia during which time he met his future writing collaborator, Dustin Thomason. Both graduated from the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in 1994. Caldwell was a Phi Beta Kappa at Princeton University where he graduated in 1998 with a degree in history. After college, while working with Thomason on their first novel, Caldwell worked at MicroStrategy in Tyson Corner and taught test preparation for Kaplan in Blacksburg while his wife, Meredith, earned her DVM at Virginia Tech. The couple lived in Newport News before moving to Vienna to raise their three children: Ethan, Jude and Luke.

https://www.facebook.com/IanCaldwellFanPage

Dustin Thomason (1976, Honolulu, USA)

Dustin Thomason is an American writer and producer. Dustin also co-created the 2006 ABC drama The Evidence and has executive produced numerous television series, including Fox's Lie to Me. and WGN America's "Manhattan".

The Rule of Four reached the top of the New York Times Best Seller list, where it remained for six months. The book was a #1 national and international bestseller and has been translated into more than 25 languages. It has sold more than four million copies worldwide, and was the best selling debut novel of the decade. Dustin's second novel, 12.21 (concerning the 2012 phenomenon) was published in more than twenty languages in August 2012 and was also a New York Times and International bestseller.

Dustin attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, then went on to study anthropology at Harvard University. and received his MD and his MBA from Columbia University. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

https://www.facebook.com/dthomason17/

SELECTED WORKS

IAN CALDWELL The rule of four, (2004) The Fith Gospel, (2015)

DUSTIN THOMASON The rule of four, (2004) 12.21, (2012)

The rule of four (2004) Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. He's intelligent and popular, but haunted by the violent death several years earlier of his father, an academic who devoted his life to studying one of the rarest, most complex and most valuable books

in

the

world.

Since

its

publication

in

1499,

the

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili has baffled scholars who have tried to understand its many mysteries. Coded in seven languages, the text

is

at

once

a

passionate

love

story,

an

intricate

mathematical labyrinth, and a tale of arcane brutality.

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