1000
By (Author) Gavin Robertson
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Feature
10th August 1999
New edition
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Adventure / action fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
823.914
Paperback
384
Width 111mm, Height 23mm, Spine 178mm
206g
Computer expert Simon Northcott has very nearly perfected the biggest financial scam the world has ever seen. But his scheme to plunder the foreign exchange markets has one vital piece missing, a tricky bit of advanced maths called a drifting table, needed to keep all the millions of simultaneous deals together for the few seconds needed to pull it off. For that he needs a genuine maths genius - and someone he can trust more than he trusts himself. Which is where Kay, better known as Thousand (because of her daunting IQ) comes in. But does he want to involve the only woman he s ever really loved in a scheme that will more than likely get her killed Because once the powers that be get wind of the scam he knows they re going to go to any lengths to make the problem and its perpetrators disappear. And as Simon is about to discover, advanced maths is a simple affair compared to the labyrinthine complexities of the human heart.
Gavin Robertson is an Australian brought up in England. He studied Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool and then Parasitology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He took a PhD at Cambridge in Entomological Population Modelling where he began to work with computers. Afterwards he travelled extensively as a technical advisor on tropical agriculture, did an MBA and ended up negotiating US aid in Washington for Third World malaria control projects. He returned to live in Cambridge where he stares at spreadsheets and crunches numbers for a living.