The Fear Index: The thrilling Richard and Judy Book Club pick
by Harris, Robert
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- 0091936969
- ISBN 13
- 9780091936969
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About This Item
Photos included in listing. Hutchinson, 2011 About the book: A chilling contemporary thriller from Robert Harris set in the competitive world of high finance. Dr Max Hoffman is a legend. A physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider, 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. 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's new novel -- a story just as compelling and timely as his most recent contemporary thriller, The Ghost. Over the next 48 hours, as the markets edge towards another great crash, Hoffman's world disintegrates. But who is trying to destroy him?. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New.
Synopsis
ROBERT HARRIS is the author of Fatherland , Enigma , Archangel , Pompeii , Imperium and The Ghost , all of which were international bestsellers. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. After graduating with a degree in English from Cambridge University, he worked as a reporter for the BBC's Panorama and Newsnight programmes, before becoming political editor of the Observer and subsequently a columnist on the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph . He is married to Gill Hornby and they live with their four children in a village near Hungerford. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Emily Green Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Fear Index: The thrilling Richard and Judy Book Club pick
- Author
- Harris, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0091936969
- ISBN 13
- 9780091936969
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2011
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