The fear index
By: Robert Harris
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor/Paragon; Paragon; Windsor
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Bath]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781445889764; 9781445889771
Subjects: Physicians; Fiction; Hedge funds; Artificial intelligence
Description: "Within the inner circles of the ultrarich, Dr-Alex Hoffmann is a legend--a visionary scientist whose eomputer software turns everything it touches into gold. Horrmann has developed a form of artificial intelligence that tracks human emotions, enabling it to predict movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund makes billions. When a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside house a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence begins 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."--Back cover.
Notes: Standard print ed. originally published: London : Hutchinson, 2011.