· Harris has fashioned in The Fear Index a thriller that's part Kafka, part Orwell, part Darwin -- with just about all parts exciting and pertinent." - Gerald Bartell, San Francisco Chronicle "The Fear Index, which unfolds over the course of a single day in Switzerland, can be read as Harris’s response to the financial turmoil of the last few years. () What follows is a slow-burning story of suspense and Author: Robert Harris. 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/5(K). · Grippingly dramatising the workings of the economy (I understood for the first time how hedge funds work), The Fear Index is, in another sense, Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.
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Grippingly dramatising the workings of the economy (I understood for the first time how hedge funds work), The Fear Index is, in another sense, an economic novel, not merely in its condensed time. The Fear Index is a novel by British author Robert Harris. It is set in a period of roughly 24 hours from the 6 May —the date of the British general election and the Flash Crash. It follows the interactions of a group of employees at Hoffmann Investment Technologies, a fictional hedge fund operating in Geneva. The fear index, p The Fear Index, page 1 Select Voice: Brian (uk) Also by Robert Harris Title Page Dedication Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Chapter 2.
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