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  • Published: 15 February 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529156065
  • Imprint: Hutchinson
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $24.99

The Fear Index

From the Sunday Times bestselling author




A timely reissue of the bestselling race-against-time financial thriller to tie in with the forthcoming TV mini-series

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SOON TO BE A SKY ORIGINAL DRAMA

'There are moments when this book feels so up to date it could have been written next week' Express
'Presents a fictional nightmare that feels like a wake-up call' Sunday Times
Meet Alex Hoffmann: among the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich, he is something of a legend.

Based 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 who is trying to destroy him - before it's too late...

  • Published: 15 February 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529156065
  • Imprint: Hutchinson
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Robert Harris

Robert Harris is the author of thirteen bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich and The Second Sleep. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into forty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby. His next book, V2, is coming out in autumn 2020.

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