The Fear Index

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<p><b>Meet Alex Hoffmann:</b>among the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich, he is something of a legend.</p><p>Based in Geneva, he has developed a revolutionary system that has the power to manipulate financial markets. Generating billions of dollars, it is a system that thrives on panic - and feeds on fear.</p><p>And then, in the early hours of one morning, while he lies asleep, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside home.</p><p>So begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffmann attempts - with increasing desperation - to discover who is trying to destroy him - before it's too late ...</p>

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Robert Harris is the author of twelve bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy -<i>Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy</i>, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction,<i>Conclave</i>and most recently,<i>Munich</i>. Several of his books have been filmed, including<i>The Ghos</i>t, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.

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