PhDeath

Description:

"PhDeath" is a fast-paced thriller set in a major university in a major city on a square. The faculty finds itself in deadly intellectual combat with the anonymous Puzzler. Along with teams of U.S. Military Intelligence and the city's top detective and aided by the Puzzle Master of The New York Times, their collective brains are no match for the Puzzler's perverse talents.-- In a major university in a major city, the faculty finds itself in deadly intellectual combat with the anonymous Puzzler. As a series of atrocities begin and end the academic year, pockets of moral rot are discovered. A cerebral mystery that combines linguistic, mathematical, and literary puzzles with a searing indictment of American education and business practices.

subjects: Higher Education,  Social justice,  Fiction,  Code and cipher stories,  Socialism,  Christianity,  Academic-industrial collaboration,  Political activity,  Social life and customs,  Distributive justice,  Military-industrial complex,  College students,  Philosophy,  Celebrities,  Puzzles,  Universities and colleges,  Plato -- Fiction,  Puzzles -- Fiction,  Distributive justice -- Fiction,  Social justice -- Economic aspects -- Fiction,  Universities and colleges -- Economic aspects -- United States,  Universities and colleges -- Political aspects -- United States,  Education, Higher -- Philosophy,  Academic-industrial collaboration -- United States -- Fiction,  Military-industrial complex -- United States -- Fiction,  Christianity -- Fiction,  Socialism -- Fiction,  Celebrities -- Fiction,  College students -- Political activity -- United States,  College students -- United States -- Social life and customs

People: Plato

Places: United States