The Fear Index

English

ISBN: 0307957950

EAN: 9780307957955

Category: Fiction / Thrillers/Fiction / Suspense/Fiction / Technological/

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 01/31/2012

Synopsis: At the nexus of high finance and sophisticated computer programming, a terrifying future may be unfolding even now.
 
Dr. Alex Hoffmann’s name is carefully guarded from the general public, but within the secretive inner circles of the ultrarich he is a legend. He has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But one morning before dawn, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside mansion, and so begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffmann attempts, with increasing desperation, to discover who is trying to destroy him.
 
Fiendishly smart and suspenseful, The Fear Index gives us a searing glimpse into an all-too-recognizable world of greed and panic. It is a novel that forces us to confront the question of what it means to be human—and it is Robert Harris’s most spellbinding and audacious novel to date.

Awards: Galaxy National Book Award – null 

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The Fear Index

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Format: eBook - EPUB

Pages: 368