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American kingpin, the epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road drugs empire, Nick Bilton ; read by Will Damron

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American kingpin, the epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road drugs empire, Nick Bilton ; read by Will Damron

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eng

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biography

Main title

American kingpin

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Nick Bilton ; read by Will Damron

Sub title

the epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road drugs empire

Summary

In 2011, a 26-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 dollar enterprise. Ross 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

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adult

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