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Book Synopsis23 December 2024 Rob Tanner should have been enjoying a rare day off from his life-consuming work as Chief Operating Officer at one of the country''s largest banks. But a panicked phone call from a senior colleague forces him to put his Christmas plans on ice: more than a thousand of the bank''s accounts have seen their balances increased by a factor of ten. Exactly ten. Through the inexplicably simple addition of an extra zero. And when the inflated balances prove to be neither early Christmas gifts, nor a botched computer system upgrade, but the most sophisticated cyber attack in history, 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: bank balances rise remorselessly and spread to all the nation''s banks. The only clues to the hacker''s intentions are cryptic daily emails, centred on Hi
