The Fear Index (E-Book, EPUB)
eBook - The thrilling Richard and Judy Book Club pick
Verlag:
ISBN/EAN: 9781409039129
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 400 S., 0.76 MB
Erschienen am
29.09.2011
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
Meet Alex Hoffmann:among the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich, he is something of a legend.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.And then, in the early hours of one morning, while he lies asleep, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside home.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 ...
Robert Harris is the author of twelve bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy -Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction,Conclaveand most recently,Munich. Several of his books have been filmed, includingThe Ghost, 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.
The gripping new race-against-time financial thriller, from the award-winning master of the literary thriller genre: Robert Harris. Shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller of the year at the 2012 Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards.
