{"id":1097,"date":"2012-01-31T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780307957931"},"modified":"2012-01-31T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T05:30:00","slug":"the-fear-index-by-robert-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/31\/the-fear-index-by-robert-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fear Index by Robert Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780307957931\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307957931\" border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780307957931\">The Fear Index<\/a> <br \/><b>Written by<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/author\/results.pperl?authorid=12040\">Robert Harris<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><b>Hardcover<\/b>, 304 pages | Knopf | Fiction &#8211; Thrillers; Fiction &#8211; Suspense; Fiction &#8211; Technological | <b>$25.95<\/b> | January 31, 2012 | 978-0-307-95793-1 (0-307-95793-4)<\/p>\n<p>At the nexus of high finance and sophisticated computer programming, a terrifying future may be unfolding even now.<br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> Dr. Alex Hoffmann&rsquo;s name is carefully guarded from the general public, but within the secretive inner circles of the ultrarich he is a legend. He has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But one morning before dawn, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside mansion, and so begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffmann attempts, with increasing desperation, to discover who is trying to destroy him.<br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> Fiendishly smart and suspenseful, <i>The Fear Index<\/i> 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&mdash;and it is Robert Harris&rsquo;s most spellbinding and audacious novel to date.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fear Index Written by Robert HarrisHardcover, 304 pages | Knopf | Fiction &#8211; Thrillers; Fiction &#8211; Suspense; Fiction &#8211; Technological | $25.95 | January 31, 2012 | 978-0-307-95793-1 (0-307-95793-4)At the nexus of high finance and sophisticated compute&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}