A Calculated Risk

London: Headline. Very Good. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Trade PB . Light shelf and edge wear, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. Cover artwork by Chris Moore. ; 352 pages; Verity Banks is the senior woman executive at the Bank of the World, a prestigious global financial institution. She lives and breathes the world of big money and big power. But when her boss axes her proposal to improve the bank's computer security, Verity decides to teach him a lesson. She plans to break into the bank's computer system and hide some money where no one will ever find it - within the system itself. Then she can point out just how essential her new security proposals are. It all seems simple - until the reaappearance in Verity's well-ordered and unemotional life of Dr Zoltan Tor. Intense and mysterious, Tor is a financial wizard who taught his protegee Verity everything about technology, commerce and the fine art of sensual living. Now he is back with a challenge: which of them can steal a billion dollars and invest it to earn thirty million in three months? The prize: the loser must grant the winner's dearest wish. .