The book The Fear Index, based on the TV series directed by David Caffrey, was published back in 2011. Harris was interested in the stock market for a reason. “When Lehman Brothers collapsed, people started speculating that AIG would be next,” he told the Evening Standard. – And almost all my money was invested in some AIG papers. And, like most people, I did not understand anything about it. [финансовом] the world.”
The plot of the Fear Index is based on the story of a flash crash – a lightning-fast crash of the American stock market. On May 6, 2010, it fell almost 10% in just five minutes, losing more than $1 trillion. In less than half an hour, the market won back a significant part of the fall. In Harris’s novel, the intrigue is dashingly twisted. A fictional character – a brilliant physicist created an artificial intelligence for trading on the stock exchange, and take it and get out of control. The very life of the protagonist was at stake.