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

The unbelievable true story of how a 26 year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it. In 2011, Ulbricht launched Silk Road, a Dark Web hosted site where drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, & poisons were traded in untold quantities, free from the government’s watchful eye. It took a massive 2–year manhunt for his eventual undoing.