The Fear Index

A chilling contemporary thriller from Robert Harris set in the competitive world of high finance. Dr Max 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 and generates astonishing returns for his investors. Then, late one night, an intruder disturbs Hoffman and his wife while they are asleep. 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.