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The fear index

"A visionary scientist creates 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 after an intruder breaks into his home, he has to try to discover who is trying to destroy him"--

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  • "The fear index"@it
  • "Fear index"@pl

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  • "A chilling contemporary thriller from Robert Harris set in the competitive world of high finance. Dr Max Hoffman is a legend. A physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider, he now uses a revolutionary and highly secret system of computer algorithms to trade on the world's financial markets. None of his rivals is sure how he does it, but somehow Hoffman's hedge fund -- built around the standard measure of market volatility: the VIX or "Fear Index" -- generates astonishing returns for his investors. Late one night, in his house beside Lake Geneva, an intruder disturbs Hoffman and his wife while they are asleep. This terrifying moment is the start of Robert Harris's new novel -- a story just as compelling and timely as his most recent contemporary thriller, The Ghost. Over the next 48 hours, as the markets edge towards another great crash, Hoffman's world disintegrates. But who is trying to destroy him?"
  • ""A visionary scientist creates 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 after an intruder breaks into his home, he has to try to discover who is trying to destroy him""
  • "Een wetenschapper is er met zijn computerprogramma VIXAL in geslaagd veel geld te verdienen op de aandelenmarkt, maar zijn bestaan komt in gevaar als hij in zijn eigen huis in elkaar wordt geslagen."
  • ""A visionary scientist creates 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 after an intruder breaks into his home, he has to try to discover who is trying to destroy him"--"
  • ""A visionary scientist creates 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 after an intruder breaks into his home, he has to try to discover who is trying to destroy him"--"@en
  • ""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."@en
  • "A visionary scientist creates 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 after an intruder breaks into his home, he has to try to discover who is trying to destroy him."
  • "Dr Alex Hoffmann is a physicist who uses a revolutionary & secret system of computer algorithms to trade on the world's financial markets. Hoffmann's hedge fund generates amazing returns for his investors."@en
  • "His name is carefully guarded from the general public but within the secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich Dr Alex Hoffmann is a legend - a visionary scientist whose computer software turns everything it touches into gold. Together with his partner, an investment banker, Hoffmann has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that tracks human emotions, enabling it to predict movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But then in the early hours of the morning, while he lies asleep with his wife, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of their lakeside house. So begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence 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."
  • "Dok̥ṭor Hofman piteaḥ tokhnit menateḥet rigshot enoshiyim ṿe-ḥozeh tenudot be-shuḳe ha-hon be-dayḳanut ʻal tivʻit. Aval keshe-yom eḥad nifretset ha-avṭaḥah shel beto..."
  • "A genius hedge-fund manager finds his life unraveling after he is targeted by people who would love to get their hands on his secret computer algorithms that accurately predict the financial markets."@en
  • "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."@en

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  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Science fiction"
  • "Krimis, Thriller, Spionage"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en

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  • "L'indice de la peur : roman"
  • "L'indice de la peur"
  • "L'indice della paura"
  • "L'indice della paura"@it
  • "Meded ha-paḥad"
  • "Angst Roman ; [Thriller]"
  • "Angst Thriller"
  • "Frygtens indeks"
  • "Angst : Thriller"
  • "Frygtens indeks"@da
  • "מדד הפחד"
  • "The fear index"
  • "The fear index"@en
  • "Indeks strachu"@pl
  • "Indeks strachu"
  • "Angst"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "The Fear Index: : The day has come to make a killing"@en
  • "El índice del miedo"
  • "De angst-index"
  • "El índice del miedo"@es
  • "The Fear Index"
  • "The Fear Index"@en

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