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A Calculated Risk

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A Calculated Risk, published in 1992, is American author Katherine Neville's second novel. It is a financial thriller. Synopsis Verity Banks is the senior woman executive at the Bank of the World, a global financial institution. She heads the department of Electronic Funds Transfer but finds herself stonewalled when she makes any proposal to step up the bank's computer security. Verity soon decides to prove the weakness of the bank's security by stealing from the very systems she has worked to protect. Upon hearing her plan, her mentor Tor sets a challenge to see which of them can steal a billion dollars and subsequently invest it to earn thirty million in three months - upping the stakes dramatically. Reception New York Times notable book A Book-of-the-Month Club Alternate Selection

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A Calculated Risk, published in 1992, is American author Katherine Neville's second novel. It is a financial thriller. Synopsis Verity Banks is the senior woman executive at the Bank of the World, a global financial institution. She heads the department of Electronic Funds Transfer but finds herself stonewalled when she makes any proposal to step up the bank's computer security. Verity soon decides to prove the weakness of the bank's security by stealing from the very systems she has worked to protect. Upon hearing her plan, her mentor Tor sets a challenge to see which of them can steal a billion dollars and subsequently invest it to earn thirty million in three months - upping the stakes dramatically. Reception New York Times notable book A Book-of-the-Month Club Alternate Selection

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).