Zero Ri$k: The cataclysmic ‘Black Swan’ financial and political cyber thriller you'll pray NEVER happens! -- TEN DAYS. SEVEN DEADLY SINS. ZERO RI$K - Rilegato

Hayes, Simon

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ISBN 10: 1738462404 ISBN 13: 9781738462407

Casa editrice: The Rubriqs Press, 2024

Riassunto

TEN DAYS. SEVEN DEADLY SINS. ZERO RI$K. When customer complaints on Christmas Eve about tenfold inflated bank balances herald not early gifts, nor a botched system upgrade, but the most sophisticated cyber-attack in history, new National Bank CEO Rob Tanner finds himself in the eye of a “Black Swan” storm no one predicted, but anyone could have anticipated. He enlists the help of brilliant American computer security expert Ashley Markham but the attacks only worsen: bank balances rise remorselessly and spread to all the nation’s banks. The only clue to the hacker’s intentions are cryptic daily emails taunting Tanner and the newly incumbent Prime Minister, James Allen. With financial markets – and the very world as he knows it - on the brink of collapse, Tanner races against the clock to decode not just the bizarre emails but their deeper meaning, and the implications for who he can really trust. All the while, his former boss “The Toad” is seeking revenge... and answers of his own. This enthralling, multi-layered debut follows the story of a disillusioned banker facing the unthinkable where money has no value, stock and bond prices are meaningless, and the economy is destroyed. Tanner must unravel the mystery of the hacker’s obsession with Hieronymus Bosch’s medieval representation of the seven deadly sins before modern society returns to the dark ages. TALKING POINTS Dependence on technology and the risks of cyber-terrorism. An innovative modern take on the seven deadly sins. A ‘locked system’ variation on the locked room mystery where, why? may be more important than whodunnit. A morality tale set in London at Christmas (with “Christmas in July” launch event invites to follow).

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Simon Hayes is an award-winning former headhunter and investment banker. His finance career took him from his home city London, where he was a top-ranked securities analyst in the Institutional Investor and Extel surveys, to the US, Hong Kong and Japan. Search led Simon back to Tokyo, where he was recognised as the “Best Headhunting Executive” in Japan by Asiamoney, then as head of a leading London-based Financial Services practice into the City's most exclusive boardrooms.

He wrote Zero Ri$k, his first novel, whilst creating the rubriqs® people skills system, and he spent much of 2023 in Zimbabwe on a major fraud case.. Born and raised in West London, Simon was the first member of his family to attend university, graduating from Trinity Hall, Cambridge with a degree in Law.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: The Rubriqs Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1738462404
• ISBN 13: 9781738462407
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 592
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile