Foucault's Pendulum
Author: Eco, Umberto
ISBN: 9780099287155
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 656
Dimensions: 193mm x 133mm x 34mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
A brilliantly executed intellectual detective story from the author of international best seller The Name of the Rose.
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth
ISBN: 9780099287155
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 656
Dimensions: 193mm x 133mm x 34mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
A brilliantly executed intellectual detective story from the author of international best seller The Name of the Rose.
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth
