{"product_id":"9780753547007","title":"American Kingpin : Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Bilton, Nick\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eTrue crime\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 31 May 2018 by Ebury Publishing (Virgin Books) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 198 x 24 | 254g\u003cp\u003eA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe 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 anything – drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons – free of the government’s watchful eye. While the federal government were undertaking an epic two-year manhunt for the site’s elusive proprietor, the Silk Road quickly ballooned into a $1.2 billion enterprise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoss embraced his new role as kingpin, taking drastic steps to protect himself – including 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 weren’t sure even existed, searching for a needle in the haystack of the global Internet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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 close calls. It’s a story of the boy next door’s 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bilton, Nick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52305308975288,"sku":"9780753547007","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780753547007.jpg?v=1763656831","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780753547007","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}