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

Author: Nick Bilton

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 passport….Read More

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