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A chilling contemporary thriller from Robert Harris set in the competitive world of high finance. Dr Max Hoffman is a legend. A physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider, he now uses a revolutionary and highly secret system of computer algorithms to trade on the world's financial markets. None of his rivals is sure how he does it, but somehow Hoffman's hedge fund -- built around the standard measure of market volatility: the VIX or "Fear Index" -- generates astonishing returns for his investors. Late one night, in his house beside Lake Geneva, an intruder disturbs Hoffman and his wife while they are asleep. This terrifying moment is the start of Robert Harris's new novel -- a story just as compelling and timely as his most recent contemporary thriller, The Ghost. Over the next 48 hours, as the markets edge towards another great crash, Hoffman's world disintegrates. But who is trying to destroy him?

Rutherfurd homenajea a la ciudad más grande de Estados Unidos en una saga rica, fascinante, que muestra su extraordinaria habilidad para combinar la investigación histórica impecable y su estilo narrativo. Describe trastornos culturales, sociales y políti

Roma, siglo I a.C. Ambición, traiciones e intrigas políticas marcan la apasionante lucha por el poder entre Cicerón, el cónsul, y su príncipe opositor, un joven líder populista llamado Julio César. Segunda entrega de la gran «Trilogía de Cicerón» de Robert Harris. Año 63 a.C. Cicerón ha sido nombrado cónsul de Roma, el cargo más alto de la República, tras una ascensión turbulenta hasta la cima del poder que le ha granjeado los peores enemigos. Así, su política se ve condicionada por las intrigas y conspiraciones a su alrededor, que convierten la capital del Imperio en un verdadero laberinto de poder. En semejante escenario, Cicerón debe enfrentarse a Julio César, un joven líder que busca el favor del vulgo, y a Catilina, un personaje sibilino, conspirador y maquiavélico. Son años de disputas, complots y ambiciones desmedidas que marcarán el rumbo de Roma e inscribirán el nombre de sus protagonistas en la Historia. Una novela brillante que ilumina una época de conjuras e intrigas políticas que supondrán el declive de la República romana. Conspiración recrea de forma magistral la vida de Cicerón, uno de los personajes más fascinantes de la antigua Roma, y consagra a Robert Harris como una de las figuras más destacadas de la ficción histórica.

Written by a mountaineer who in 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, drifted cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. It tells how moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. It tells the story of that promise and its outcome.

According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions. Nick Hornby's brilliant new novel, a No. 1 bestseller in the UK and Ireland, offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood, and asks that most difficult of questions: what does it mean to be good?

Come si fa a diventare buoni? E soprattutto, che cosa significa essere buoni? Katie Karr non se l'è mai chiesto: una donna che ha scelto di diventare medico per aiutare gli altri e che ha cresciuto i figli ai valori morali più profondi non ha nemmeno bisogno di chiederselo. Finché quella donna non tradisce il marito. E allora il marito, David, decide di dare una svolta alla sua vita. Abbandona le arguzie sarcastiche con le quali non risparmiava nessuno, nemmeno la moglie e i figli, e rinuncia a versare veleno su tutto e tutti nella rubrica che firmava regolarmente su un quotidiano locale; insomma smette diessere "l'uomo più arrabbiato di Holloway" per diventare buono. Ma buono sul serio, facendo perdere a Katie ogni punto di riferimento.