Ross embraced his new role as kingpin, taking drastic steps to protect himself - including ordering a hit on a former employee.
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. 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. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom - and almost got away with it. The writing is akin to the best of mystery noir.Print American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road Drugs Empire The cat and mouse game that is ever present is pulse-pounding. The many characters who are highlighted are illuminating, and some are criminally flawed. Ross is paranoid, but is he paranoid enough to stay one step ahead of his pursuers?Īmerican Kingpin weaves a multi-person narrative encompassing the pursuers and the pursued. The discovery of a pink pill in the mail snowballs into a widespread multi-agency effort to track down the elusive runner of the Silk Road site. Ross would run his empire with the help of anonymous minions, cautious but occasionally dropping a nugget or two of information about his existence. The currency dealt was virtual, as Bitcoin was a blossoming method of payment. This business would develop into a wholesale business where Ross oversaw a blooming dealer-to-user operation.
In 2011, Ross developed the Silk Road website to market psychedelic mushrooms. He had met the love of his life, who was shocked by his meager living. Floundering through his early 20s, he was brilliant but unfulfilled. The ones who people never assume anything about always hold shock value. The criminal kingpins who run roughshod over our world with impunity come in many variations.
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