In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything – drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons – free of the government’s watchful eye. While the federal government were undertaking an epic two-year manhunt for the site’s elusive proprietor, the Silk Road quickly ballooned into a $1.2 billion enterprise. Ross embraced his new role as kingpin, taking drastic steps to protect himself – including ordering a hit on a former employee. As Ross made plans to disappear forever, the Feds raced against the clock to catch a man they weren’t sure even existed, searching for a needle in the haystack of the global Internet. Drawing on exclusive access to key players and two billion digital words and images Ross left behind, New York Times bestselling author Nick Bilton offers a tale filled with twists and turns, lucky breaks and unbelievable close calls. It’s a story of the boy next door’s ambition gone criminal, spurred on by the clash between the new world of libertarianleaning, anonymous, decentralised Web advocates and the old world of government control, order and the rule of law. Filled with unforgettable characters and capped by an astonishing climax, American Kingpin might be dismissed as too outrageous for fiction. But it’s all too real.
Вес: 485
Ширина упаковки: 160
Высота упаковки: 40
Глубина упаковки: 240
Автор на обложке: Nick Bilton
Автор: Ник Билтон
Тип издания: Отдельное издание
Тип обложки: Мягкая обложка
Издательство: Virgin Books
ISBN: 9780753546673
Год выпуска: 2017
Количество страниц: 352
Язык издания: Английский
Произведение: American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind behind the Silk Road Drugs Empire
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