Superpris – American Kingpin – Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The unbelievable true story of the man now pardoned by President Trump
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 anythingdrugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisonsfree of the governments watchful eye. While the federal government were undertaking an epic two-year manhunt for the sites elusive proprietor, the Silk Road quickly ballooned into a billion enterprise.
Ross embraced his new role as kingpin, taking drastic steps to protect himselfincluding 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 werent 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 calls. Its a story of the boy next doors ambition gone criminal, spurred on by the clash between the new world of libertarian-leaning, anonymous, decentralised Web advocates and the old world of government control, order and the rule of law.