The Fear Index Robert Harris She was lucky to be

She was lucky to be with a man like him

who subjects him to endless petty cruelties for daring to step above his station

or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley

'John le Carr is as recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial Times

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The Fear Index Robert Harris She was lucky to beBased 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