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The Fear Index Book
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His name is carefully guarded from the general public but within the secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich Dr Alex Hoffmann is a legend - a visionary scientist whose computer software turns everything it touches into gold. Together with his partner an investment banker Hoffmann has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that tracks human emotions enabling it to predict movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund based in Geneva makes billions. But then in the early hours of the morning while he lies asleep with his wife a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of their lakeside house. So begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffmann attempts with increasing desperation to discover who is trying to destroy him. His quest forces him to confront the deepest questions of what it is to be human. By the time night falls over Geneva the financial markets will be in turmoil and Hoffmann's world - and ours - transformed forever.
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Dr Alex Hoffman is a legend. An American physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, he now uses a revolutionary and highly secret system of computer algorithms to trade on the world's financial markets. None of his rivals is sure how he does it, but somehow Hoffman's hedge fund - built around the standard measure of market volatility: the VIX or 'Fear Index' - generates astonishing returns for his investors. Then, late one night, in his house beside Lake Geneva, an intruder disturbs Hoffman and his wife while they are asleep. This terrifying moment is the start of Robert Harris' new novel - a story just as compelling and timely as his most recent contemporary thriller, The Ghost. Set entirely over the course of a single day, The Fear Index follows Hoffman's quest to find out who is trying to destroy him, even as the world's financial markets head for collapse.
- 0091936969
- 9780091936969
- Robert Harris
- 29 September 2011
- Hutchinson
- Hardcover (Book)
- 336
- First Edition, First Printing
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