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“Chilling…Harris has
shown himself a master of the thriller form…The principal narrative unfolds at
a breakneck pace…Readers may find themselves lying awake at night unsettled by
the story.”
— Wall Street Journal
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“In this taut
thriller, Harris delivers a superbly entertaining read for our time.”
— Newsweek
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“Fleet-footed…Harris
expertly conjures a paranoid world where everyone seems to be watching everyone
else.”
— New York Times
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“Harris has fashioned
in The Fear Index a thriller that’s
part Kafka, part Orwell, part Darwin—with just about all parts exciting and
pertinent…The tale [comes] to a stunning and disturbing finish.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
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“Unputdownable…Harris
has achieved the impossible, or at least the improbable: an explanation of the
extravagantly esoteric nature of hedge funds, which normal people can
understand…I gorged myself, devouring his dystopian vision of free markets
enslaved by a sinister artificial intelligence in one breakneck sitting.”
— Daily Telegraph (London)
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“Reminiscent of
everyone from Michael Crichton to Ian Fleming, Stanley Kubrick and Alfred
Hitchcock.”
— Financial Times
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“A virtuoso specimen…Inventively
exploiting current anxieties about algorithmic trading to update the
Frankenstein story, The Fear Index is
both cutting edge and keenly conscious of its literary predecessors…A tour de
force.”
— Sunday Times (London)
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“Timely, expertly
executed…Foreboding runs through the system of the book like an IV drip…It
doesn’t take a super-computer to know The
Fear Index is a worthwhile investment of your time.”
— USA Today
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“Addictive…Pick this
up on an airplane, and you won’t want to land…The greatest pleasure is that it
gets the finance right.”
— Reuters
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“Harris is a master
of pacing—the story moves swiftly while never feeling rushed, and the tension
increases subtly chapter by chapter.”
— Bloomberg News
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“A blazingly
ambitious novel…A fictional nightmare that feels like a wake-up call.”
— Sunday Telegraph (London)
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“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.”
— Economist
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“Ingenious…There
aren’t many writers who can produce genuine page-turners these days but Harris
is one and The Fear Index had me
gripped from the start…The characters are superb…Harris is stunningly good at
explaining complex financial instruments in layman’s terms.”
— Sunday Express (London)
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“Harris’s great skill
is to inhabit fully and convincingly the worlds he writes about, showing off
his vast research yet never allowing the white-knuckle narrative to lose momentum.”
— New Statesman
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“As gripping a tale
as anything Harris has written…It crackles with energy and invention, and the
author’s obviously extensive research into the arcane world of state-of-the-art
computing technology, algorithms, trading, and hedge funds is dished up lightly
and intelligibly.”
— Irish Independent
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“Another winner…What
makes Harris’s thrillers so much more rewarding than those of his rivals is
that they all, whatever their ostensible subject, come out of his deep and
expert interest in power.”
— Evening Standard (London)
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“Harris is a master
of pace and entertainment.”
— Observer (London)