The Quiet Bid

von Hira Dhramnarayan Jha

186 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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Nobody made a single rupee. That is what Zoya Raut cannot explain.For six years Zoya has watched the market from a rented room above a dentist in Lower Parel - reading order flow the way other people read handwriting, naming the machines she recognises after whatever she was eating when she first saw them. It pays almost nothing. It is the only thing she is good at.Then an index falls eleven per cent in six minutes and is back by lunchtime, and the exchange calls it a technical dislocation caused by somebody's mistyped order.Zoya knows better, because she recognises the hand that did it.She wrote it.The algorithm was certified destroyed four years ago. Now it is loose - and the further she goes, the less sense it makes. No position. No payday. Nobody anywhere who gained. Somebody spent four crore rupees breaking a market for six minutes, and then spent more putting it back.She has the tape, the timestamps, and no way on earth to prove who. She has been asking the wrong question since March, and she will not find that out for five months - by which time a frightened man has run, a boy in Ahmedabad has been blamed for something he did not do, and the thing all of this was rehearsal for has still not happened.The Quiet Bid is a thriller about a market that works exactly as designed, and about what becomes possible when everybody does the right thing at the same moment.A tense, slow-burn financial mystery set in Mumbai, for readers of Robert Harris and John Lanchester.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174244795
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published