A gift from our next door neighbour, for whom we were cooking. Never read any Robert Harris before. I thought this started well, but deteriorated rapidly (unless I misunderstood it). A hyper-intelligent scientist, who used to work on the Hadron Collider project in Switzerland, now has his own hedge fund/brokerage in Geneva, which makes phenomenal profits. He is disturbed one night by an intruder in his hyper-secure house. It transpires I think that he has set this up himself along with other bizarre accidents in his otherwise well ordered life, and that his mental life is in some kind of downwards spiral. The algorithms in his site seems to precipitate a world financial crash, out of which it makes huge amounts of money. He attempts, unsuccessfully I think, to destroy the system he has produced towards the end. It all seemed pretty silly to me.
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