American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal MasterMind Behind the Silk Road

by Nick Bilton

Book Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom--and almost got away with it In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143129023
• ISBN13: 9780143129028
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Portfolio
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.3"