{"product_id":"9780156032971","title":"Foucault's Pendulum","description":"\u003cp\u003e“As brilliant and quirky as \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose,\u003c\/i\u003e as mischievous and wide-ranging . . . A virtuoso performance.” —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA literary joke plunges its creators into mortal danger in this captivating intellectual thriller by celebrated author Umberto Eco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Colonel Ardenti starts it all: He tells three editors that he has discovered a coded message about a centuries-old Knights Templar plan to tap a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy. The editors, bored with rewriting crackpot manuscripts on the occult and amused by his fantastic claims, decide to cook up a Plan of their own. Into their computer they feed manuscript pages on Satanic initiation rites, Rosicrucianism, the measurements of the Great Pyramid—and out comes a map indicating a point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled, a point located at Foucault’s Pendulum in Paris. A terrific joke, they think. Until people begin to disappear mysteriously, starting with the colonel . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An encyclopedic detective story about a search for the center of an ancient, still-living conspiracy of men who seek not merely power over the earth but the power of the earth itself . . . An intellectual triumph.” —Anthony Burgess, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUMBERTO ECO is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the bestselling author of numerous novels and essays. He lives in Milan.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008660357360,"sku":"9780156032971","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780156032971_p0.jpg?v=1763779317","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780156032971","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}