EPISODE · Jan 31, 2012 · 7 MIN
The Fear Index Audiobook by Robert Harris
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Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/10 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Fear Index Author: Robert Harris Narrator: Christian Rodska Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins Language: English Release date: 01-31-12 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 360 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense Publisher's Summary: At the nexus of high finance and sophisticated computer programming, a terrifying future may be unfolding even now. Dr. Alex Hoffmanns 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 humanand it is Robert Harriss most spellbinding and audacious novel to date. Critic Reviews: "Unputdownable.... Harris has achieved the impossible, or at least the improbable: an explanation of the extravagantly esoteric nature of hedge funds, which normal people can understand.... I gorged myself, devouring his dystopian vision of free markets enslaved by a sinister artificial intelligence in one breakneck sitting. (The Daily Telegraph) Reminiscent of everyone from Michael Crichton to Ian Fleming, Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock. (Financial Times) A virtuoso specimen.... Inventively exploiting current anxieties about algorithmic trading to update the Frankenstein story, The Fear Index is both cutting edge and keenly conscious of its literary predecessors.... A tour de force. (The Sunday Times, London)
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