The fear index

"Within the inner circles of the ultrarich, Dr-Alex Hoffmann is a legend--a visionary scientist whose eomputer software turns everything it touches into gold. Horrmann has developed a form of artificial intelligence that tracks human emotions, enabling it to predict movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund makes billions. When a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside house a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence begins 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."--Back cover.