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Also by Robert Harris:

Precipice, September 2024
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Fatherland, March 2022
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An Officer And A Spy, February 2014
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The Fear Index, February 2012
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The Ghost Writer, March 2010
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Conspirata, February 2010
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The Ghost, November 2007
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THE FEAR INDEX
By: Robert Harris

Knopf
February 2012
On Sale: January 31, 2012
Featuring: Alex Hoffmann
304 pages
ISBN: 0307957934
EAN: 9780307957931
Kindle: B005EM8O8O
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery | Suspense

At the nexus of high finance and sophisticated computer programming, a terrifying future may be unfolding even now.

Dr. Alex Hoffmann’s name is carefully guarded from the general public, but within the secretive inner circles of the ultrarich he is a legend. He has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But one morning before dawn, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside mansion, and so begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffmann attempts, with increasing desperation, to discover who is trying to destroy him.

Fiendishly smart and suspenseful, The Fear Index gives us a searing glimpse into an all-too-recognizable world of greed and panic. It is a novel that forces us to confront the question of what it means to be human—and it is Robert Harris’s most spellbinding and audacious novel to date.

Media Buzz

PBS News Hour - March 15, 2012
Morning Edition - February 6, 2012