Foucaults Pendulum (1989) - Umberto Eco
Category: Thriller
Narrator: Alexander Adams
Tags: Thriller, Classic, Adults
Length: 14hrs 27min Publisher:Books on Tape, Newport Beach, CA, 1997, William Weaver-translator, Umberto Eco - (1932 - 2016), This was the authors second published novel., This complex psychological thriller chronicles the development of a literary joke that plunges its perpetrators into deadly peril., One Colonel Ardenti, who has unnaturally black, brilliantined hair, a carefully groomed mustache, wears maroon socks, and who once served in the Foreign Legion, starts it all. He tells three Milan book editors that he has discovered a coded message about a Templar Plan, centuries old and involving Stonehenge, a plan to tap a mystic source of power far greater than atomic energy., Bored with their work, the three Milanese book editors cook up an elaborate hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with occult groups across the centuries. Becoming obsessed with their own creation, they produce a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be contro
