Zero Risk
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, National Bank Chief Operating Officer Rob Tanner finds himself in the eye of a ‘Black Swan’ storm no one predicted, but anyone could have anticipated. Tanner enlists the help of brilliant American cyber security expert Ashley Markham, but the attacks only worsen. The only clue to the hacker’s intentions... cryptic daily emails, centred on Hieronymus Bosch’s medieval representation of the seven deadly sins, packed with colourful artistic and cultural references.
Psychedelic ramblings or psychotic threats? With financial markets—and the very world as he knows it—on the brink of collapse, Tanner races against the clock to prevent unthinkable financial Armageddon, where money has no value, stock and bond prices are meaningless, and the economy is destroyed. Can he unravel the mystery of the hacker’s obsession with Bosch, sin and retribution before modern society returns to the dark ages?
Narrator Stephanie Racine is a Carleton Hobbs winner, has voiced numerous New York Times, US and UK Bestselling Audiobooks and was nominated for Best Crime Audiobook for the New York Times Bestselling Audiobook Sometimes I Lie.
READER REVIEWS:
"What most impressed me is that this is a debut, and such a confident one at that. It will pull you in from the very start and won't let you go until the thrilling conclusion. For fans of Dan Brown and James Patterson - a great read!"
"A thriller bristling with energy, wit and romance. A must-read."
"If you love a complex and original thriller with lots of suspense, I would highly recommend this. I will definitely be looking forward to future books by Simon Hayes. This is a fantastic debut."
"This book is like a juicy literary onion."
Simon Hayes is an award-winning headhunter and former investment banker. His finance career took him from his home city London, where he was a top-ranked securities analyst, to the US, Hong Kong and Japan. Search led Simon back to Tokyo, where he was recognised as the “Best Headhunting Executive” in Japan, 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.
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