American Kingpin

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Author : Nick Bilton
Genre : True Crime

Summary : NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. 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 passports, counterfeit cash, poisons—free of the government’s watchful eye. It wasn’t long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone—not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black hat hackers—could buy and sell contraband detection-free. Spurred by a public outcry, the federal government launched an epic two-year manhunt for the site’s elusive proprietor, with no leads, no witnesses, and no clear jurisdiction. All the investigators knew was that whoever was running the site called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts. The Silk Road quickly ballooned into $1.2 billion enterprise, and Ross embraced his new role as kingpin. He enlisted a loyal crew of allies in high and low places, all as addicted to the danger and thrill of running an illegal marketplace as their customers were to the heroin they sold. Through his network he got wind of the target on his back and took 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. Drawing on exclusive access to key players and two billion digital words and images Ross left behind, Vanity Fair correspondent and 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, decentralized Web advocates and the old world of government control, order, and the rule of law. Filled with unforgettable characters and capped by an astonishing climax, American Kingpin might be dismissed as too outrageous for fiction. But it’s all too real.

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Author : S Williams
Genre : Education

Summary : Teases fullz (full identity) $50-200, credit card dumps $20-40, seller ratings.

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Author : Louise I. Shelley
Genre : Business & Economics

Summary : Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and, as Dark Commerce shows, now operate as if on steroids, tied to computers and social media. In this new world of illicit commerce, which benefits states and diverse participants, trade is impersonal and anonymized, and vast profits are made in short periods with limited accountability to sellers, intermediaries, and purchasers. Louise Shelley examines how new technology, communications, and globalization fuel the exponential growth of dangerous forms of illegal trade--the markets for narcotics and child pornography online, the escalation of sex trafficking through web advertisements, and the sale of endangered species for which revenues total in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The illicit economy exacerbates many of the world's destabilizing phenomena: the perpetuation of conflicts, the proliferation of arms and weapons of mass destruction, and environmental degradation and extinction. Shelley explores illicit trade in tangible goods--drugs, human beings, arms, wildlife and timber, fish, antiquities, and ubiquitous counterfeits--and contrasts this with the damaging trade in cyberspace, where intangible commodities cost consumers and organizations billions as they lose identities, bank accounts, access to computer data, and intellectual property.

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Author : Adelbert L. Adam
Genre : Biography & Autobiography

Summary : What does it take to chase the truth for thirty years and never flinch? Nick Bilton arrived in America with a British accent, an outsider's eye, and a hunger to understand a country that was louder, bolder, and more complicated than anything he had grown up with. He had no guaranteed path into journalism. No family connections in the industry. No roadmap for what he was trying to build. What he had was curiosity sharp enough to cut through the carefully managed surfaces of powerful institutions, and a commitment to the truth that no amount of pressure, pushback, or professional consequence could erode. What followed was one of the most remarkable careers in the history of American journalism. From his years at The New York Times — where he became the essential voice for anyone trying to make sense of the digital revolution — to the bestselling books that pulled back the curtain on Silicon Valley's most guarded secrets, to the HBO documentary that changed how a generation thought about social media, to the Hollywood screenplay being crafted alongside Martin Scorsese with Leonardo DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson, and Emily Blunt, to the executive producer's chair at 60 Minutes, Nick Bilton has never stopped moving toward the story that everyone else was too cautious, too comfortable, or too compromised to tell. Breaking the Story is not simply a biography. It is an intimate, deeply reported account of what it looks like when a journalist refuses to blink — when the pressure to soften a story is at its most intense, when the most powerful people in the room want the narrative to go a different way, and when the easy path is available and the right path is harder and the journalist takes the right path anyway, every single time. It is the story of a man who understood, earlier than almost anyone, that the technology being built in Silicon Valley was not just an economic story or a business story but a deeply human one — a story about power and accountability, about the gap between the world as it was being sold to us and the world as it actually was. And who spent three decades doing the work of closing that gap, one story at a time. It is the story of Hatching Twitter — the explosive account of betrayal and ambition at the heart of one of the most consequential companies ever built. Of American Kingpin — the breathtaking true crime narrative that took readers inside the dark web's most audacious criminal empire. Of Fake Famous — the documentary that held a mirror up to social media culture and made millions of people uncomfortable in exactly the ways they needed to be. But above all, it is the story of a journalist who never forgot what journalism is for. Who never mistook speed for value, or volume for significance, or access for integrity. Who understood that the most important thing a reporter can do is earn the trust of the people they are writing about and then honour that trust by telling the truth, even when the truth is inconvenient, even when it costs something, even when it would have been so much easier to look the other way. In an era when trust in journalism has never been more fragile and the need for serious, fearless, deeply reported storytelling has never been more urgent, Nick Bilton's career is both an inspiration and an argument. An inspiration because it demonstrates what is possible when talent and integrity and genuine commitment to the craft are brought to bear on the stories that matter most. And an argument because it proves, through thirty years of evidence, that the truth is worth chasing — that the work of finding it and telling it well is not just professionally rewarding but genuinely, consequentially important. This is the book for anyone who has ever believed that journalism matters. For anyone who has read a story that changed how they saw the world and wondered about the person who had the courage to write it. For anyone who works in media and needs to be reminded why they started. For anyone navigating a world that seems increasingly resistant to honest examination and needs to be shown that honest examination is still happening, still mattering, still making a difference. Read this book because the story of Nick Bilton is the story of what happens when one person refuses, for thirty years and counting, to stop telling the truth. Read it because that story is more urgent now than it has ever been. Read it because in a world full of noise, it is a reminder of what signal sounds like. And read it because the best of the story — his and ours — is still being written.

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Author : Jason Ryan
Genre : True Crime

Summary : In the late 1970s and early '80s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads of Miami Vice and a Jimmy Buffett song. These irrepressible adventurers unloaded nearly a billion dollars worth of marijuana and hashish through the eastern seaboard’s marshes. Then came their undoing: Operation Jackpot, one of the largest drug investigations ever and an opening volley in Ronald Reagan’s War on Drugs. In Jackpot, author Jason Ryan takes us back to the heady days before drug smuggling was synonymous with deadly gunplay. During this golden age of marijuana trafficking, the country’s most prominent kingpins were a group of wayward and fun-loving Southern gentlemen who forsook college educations to sail drug-laden luxury sailboats across the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Caribbean. Les Riley, Barry Foy, and their comrades eschewed violence as much as they loved pleasure, and it was greed, lust, and disaster at sea that ultimately caught up with them, along with the law. In a cat-and-mouse game played out in exotic locations across the globe, the smugglers sailed through hurricanes, broke out of jail and survived encounters with armed militants in Colombia, Grenada and Lebanon. Based on years of research and interviews with imprisoned and recently released smugglers and the law enforcement agents who tracked them down, Jackpot is sure to become a classic story from America's controversial Drug Wars. “The adventures, the long-gone economy, and the sting that ultimately brought them down and changed US drug policy are meticulously documented and lucidly spun…. Part New Yorker feature-part Jimmy Buffet song. . . . The result is adventuresome, lavish, informative fun.” —GQ “[A] rollicking story, Ryan manages to pack in one amusing tale after another.... Jackpot is a rip-roaring good read.” —Charleston City Paper “High times on the high seas: Investigative reporter Ryan recounts the glory days of dope smuggling and their terrible denouement.... A well-told tale of true crime that provides a few good arguments for why it should not be a crime at all.” —Kirkus Reviews “Reads like an international thriller. . . . chock-a-block with hilarious and hair-raising anecdotes of fast times.” —New York Journal of Books “[A] thoroughly researched account of Operation Jackpot, the drug investigation that ended the reign of South Carolina’s ‘gentlemen smugglers,’.... Ryan recreates the era with a vivid, sun-drenched intensity.” —Publishers Weekly

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Author : Start Publishing Notes
Genre : Study Aids

Summary : PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Nick Bilton's American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed "About the Author" section. PREVIEW: American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton tells the story of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of an illegal website that helped people buy and sell illicit goods anonymously. The author traces how Ross transformed his nascent idea for an "eBay for drugs" on the Dark Web into a multimillion dollar business, as well as the team of crafty feds who brought him down-and ultimately put him behind bars for life. Ross was a 24-year-old graduate student at Penn State when he met his girlfriend, Julia. He was politically active on campus to the point where his libertarianism distracted him from his studies, which led to a dismissal from his PhD program in 2010. Julia quit school and followed him to Austin, Texas, where his family lived. After a handful of failed business ventures, Ross began working long hours to develop an idea he'd been toying with for some time: an online marketplace where people could buy and sell anything from drugs to guns without fearing for their safety or privacy. The recent invention of Bitcoin had made his pipe dream realistic, and he was so excited that he worked long hours teaching himself the code he needed to build the site. By 2011, it was ready. Using an alias, Ross left a few messages advertising its existence on drug-related forums. That's all it took to launch his website, the Silk Road.