American kingpin : catching the billion-dollar baron of the Dark Web
Bilton, Nick2018
Book
TRUE CRIME. From New York Times-bestselling author Nick Bilton comes a true-life thriller about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road. In 2011, Ulbricht, a 26-year-old libertarian idealist and former Boy Scout, launched "a website where people could buy anything anonymously, with no trail whatsoever that could lead back to them." He called it Silk Road, opened for business on the Dark Web, and christened himself the Dread Pirate Roberts (after the Princess Bride character). The site grew at a tremendous pace, quickly becoming a $1.2 billion enterprise where you could buy or sell drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, guns, grenades, and poisons. The Silk Road soon caught the attention of the Feds, who embarked on an epic two-year manhunt for the site's proprietor.
Main title:
Author:
Bilton, Nick, author
Imprint:
London : Virgin Books, 2018.©2017.
Collation:
xv, 329 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9780753547007 ((pbk.))0753547007
Dewey class:
364.1336502854678364.168
Language:
English
BRN:
474608