Police procedural set in HAMPSHIRE and TYNE & WEAR
The Fear Index
Location(s): Geneva
Genre(s): Thriller
Era(s): 6.5.2010 (British General Election day)
With his eighth novel, but only his second set in the present day (after “Ghost”), Robert Harris will surely notch up another international bestseller. Alex Hoffman, a Geneva-based scientist turned hedge-fund supremo, has the Midas touch. But when he devises an algorithm capable of predicting the effects of human fear on world stockmarkets, he risks being devoured by his own brilliance. Harris’s swift, lucid porse enables even the most mathematically challenged to feel at home with “quants” and “shorts”. And while Hoffman’s sidekick is your classic “steel-balled shit”, Hoffman himself is sufficiently subtle and psychologically fragile to flesh out the drama with human interest. a “Frankenstein” for the 21st century. (Maggie Fergusson, Intelligent Life)
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