American Kingpin The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road By Nick Bilton

ISBN 10: 1591848148

ISBN 13: 9781591848141

From New York Times bestselling author Nick Bilton comes a truelife thriller about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road In Hatching Twitter , Nick Bilton gave readers an astonishingly reported, riveting, and impeccably crafted story of the politics and power struggles behind the founding of Twitter Now Bilton turns his investigative journalism to the story of Ross Ulbricht, the notorious and enigmatic founder of a drug empire called Silk Road In 2011, Ulbricht, a 26yearold 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 12 billion enterprise where