THE FEAR INDEX

Book ID/图书代码： 06580010B43784

English Summary/英文概要： 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.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 亚历山大· 霍夫曼博士的名字被刻意地隐匿于公众视线之外，但在超级富豪们的私密小圈子里，他却是位传奇人物，一名富有远见的科学家，他发明的计算机软件能够点石成金！

霍夫曼和拍档——一位投资银行家一起研发出了一种前所未有的人工智能，可以用来追踪人类各种情感，并以此预测金融市场的波动起伏，结果惊人准确！霍夫曼借助此项发明在日内瓦创立了避险基金，并从此成为亿万富豪。

但是一天凌晨，正当他和妻子熟睡时，一位陌生人闯入了这所门禁重重的豪华湖畔别墅。紧接着一连串暴力事件接踵而来，而他似乎又回到了被妄想症困扰的旧日梦魇里……处于绝望边缘的霍夫曼决意奋起反击，找出那个试图加害他的元凶。

白天一路追凶的经历迫使他面对最深刻的心灵追问，人生是什么？此时，夜幕已降临到日内瓦，金融股市马上要迎来一场风暴，而霍夫曼的世界，连同我们的世界，从此将被彻底改变。

同名电影由《谍影重重》（２、３）的导演保罗·格林格拉斯执导拍摄。(AC)

Awards/获奖情况：入圍英國犯罪小說作家協會（CWA）伊恩．佛萊明鋼鐵匕首獎（Ian Fleming Steel Dagger）shortlist

版權銷售訊息: De Bezige Bij (Dutch); Otava (Finnish); Plon (French); Heyne (German); Kinneret (Hebrew); Mondadori (Italian);Cappelen Damm (Norwegian); Albatros (Polish)

"As in Frankenstein, an over-reaching scientist finds himself desperately battling to destroy what he’s created. Depicting all this with sardonic relish, Harris switches the high-tension techniques that give his thrillers their heart-pounding suspense into black comic mode... The Fear Index is both cutting edge and keenly conscious of its literary predecessors... a tour-de-force."---The Sunday Times

"Like all Harris’ books, this one is readily enjoyable as a suspense story... But what makes Harris’ thrillers so much more rewarding than those of his rivals is that they all... come out of his deep and expert interest in politics, broadly conceived--which is to say, in power, in how power is taken, held and lost; how some people are able to dominate others; how wealth and status, fear and greed, work... The Fear Index... is ultimately a study in the total lack of morality of those who manipulate the markets . . . in its own carefully conceived terms, The Fear Index is certainly another winner."---Evening Standard

"A compulsive page-turner"---Woman & Home

"Harris is a master of pace and entertainment, and The Fear Index is a thoroughly enjoyable book... Read the book. If I die tomorrow, blame the computer."---The Observer

"A fine dystopian parable, especially impressive for the fact that instead of giving up on what really goes on in most banks and hedge funds and making them a mere back drop for money-laundering and ancillary skulduggery, as many thriller-writers have done, his heart of darkness is the thing itself. The drama contains, as he notes in the acknowledgments, ’Gothic flights of fantasy’--the story reminiscent of everyone from Michael Crichton to Ian Fleming, Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock. Yet there is an uncomfortable core of reality there... Quite a few Financial Times readers will, I suspect, not only savour The Fear Index, but wince with recognition."---Financial Times

"The Fear Index is an escapist thriller to rank with the best of them, and as a guide to what hedge funds actually do, it is surprisingly clear and instructive."---The Economist

"For many of us, share prices are strings of dry, indecipherable figures ticking across hi-tech screens. But when stock markets tank, how quickly we become infected with the moist primal of emotions: sick confusion, clammy dread, coldest fear. Expertly mining this deep unease, Robert Harris’ thriller presents a fictional nightmare that feels like a wake-up call... The novel has a sophistication that lifts beyond banker-bashing. Harris takes aim at a corrupted system from a moral and intellectual height that practically induces vertigo."---Sunday Telegraph

"Robert Harris’ new novel The Fear Index races along as a thriller of high finance set during a single day: that of the Flash Crash. I have to obey spoiler-alert protocols at this point, because it is very hard to summarise what Harris so grippingly achieves through this material without letting some cats (Schrödinger’s, perhaps?) out of the bag. So, if you prefer, look away now and read the book. You will do so very rapidly."---Independent

"The Fear Index could scarcely be more of the moment."---The Times

About the Author/作者介绍： 罗伯特•哈里斯是一名作家，著有八部畅销小说作品：《祖国》《迷》《长天使》《庞贝古城》《帝国》《鬼魂》以及《五年时光》和《恐怖数据》。他的数部小说作品均被改编拍摄成了电影，最近一部《鬼魂》由罗马•波兰斯基执导。其作品被翻译成37种语言，作者现与其妻子吉尔•洪比居住在伯克郡西部，金特伯里的一座村庄中。

Robert Harris is the author of eight bestselling novels: Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium, The Ghost, Lustrum and The Fear Index. Several of his books have been filmed, most recently The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. He lives in the village of Kintbury, west Berkshire, with his wife Gill Hornby.

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