American Kingpin Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Nick Bilton
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
1,208

American Kingpin by Nick Bilton Book 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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Book Name American Kingpin
Genre True Crime
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Language English
E-Book Size 18.7 MB

American Kingpin (Nick Bilton) Book Reviews 2024

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Fantastic book. Must read.

American Kingpin. One of the best books I’ve ever read period! Two weeks after I read it the first time re-read the second time and it was even better! Patrick Beau

Excellent!!. This book was excellent from start to finish. I couldn’t put it down, it was well written and very interesting. It was full of suspense, especially the end of the book it was heart pounding.

American King Pin. Excellent from the first page! Amazing what this guy puts together and how his brain is wired. I could not put it down. Highly recommend.

Amazing. Couldn’t put this book down! Amazingly well written.

Wrong Impression. I thought this book was about bowling.

American Kingpin.. Loved it. Well written and kept me fascinated. Amazing that it is a true story.

Excellent Read. I was truly fascinated with a world I knew nothing about. The fascinating details of a modern day pirate made this book a terrific read.

Reads like a fast paced novel. I wasn’t sure what I was expecting when I picked up this book but this book surpassed all my expectations. The book is well written and easy to follow, even though there are handful of people involved in the story. Must have been really painful and arduous to research this book and it shows with the level of details and the clarity with which the book is written.

American Kingpin. A good book, I would read it again.

Real life drama. A great read that touches all parts of life and demonstrates the level one can go to for a cause no matter the ethics of it. Being a true story it has enormous teaching value

A really great read and inexpensive too.. If you like detective stories this book is great with multiple agencies involved, even dirty cops in the mix.

Pretty fascinating. A great telling of nonfiction that reads like fictional suspense. Well crafted, and a pretty incredible bit of history to take in. Great read.

Great Book. This book is no doubt one of my favorites ever. Couldn't put it down!

Excellent read. Read this book while I was in prison was a amazing read was not boring and really painted a picture on how something so small became one of the biggest criminal cases in history excellent read really suggest it

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Well done. Good read. Learned a lot.

Loved this book!. Couldn’t put it down. The detail of this story is insane. Highly recommend

Must read. One of the few books I couldn’t put down. Intrigue, suspense and beautiful story telling.

Outstanding. Great read.

Amazing. What a cool story. The feds were right to worry about dark money

Phenomenal book. Incredibly well written. Author did a tremendous job, taking a treasure trove of information and painting a clear picture. The timeline of events, the way written, flowed nicely. Such a complicated real world story, but you are never lost in the book. I wish it was longer. Didn’t want the book to end!

Super lame. All fluff. Hollywooded fiction. Don’t waste ur time

Could be better. The story in its self is fascinating and entertaining. In my opinion, it’s not very well written. Dialogue between characters is poor and you can tell the author fails to stay objective at some points

Well written and mostly unbiased. It’s very thorough and moves through the story at a fair pace. I say mostly unbiased because it has a few seemingly self-righteous opinions.

A Must Read!. A riveting story that I simply could not step away from, this book contains not just a recount of the life of the man behind the Silk Road, but rather an in-depth look at how he became an “American Kingpin” while still trying to maintain a semblance of his life as Ross Ulbricht. A ruthless drug lord, or an idealist and libertarian mastermind? You decide.

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Great book if you want to learn more about life.. This is a book not about the dark web or Silk Road. It's about human life and how one person can change million of people life's. I could not let this book " IPhone " down. It keeps pulling you deeper and deeper in. A must read.

American Kingpin is a Modern American Classic. American Kingpin tackles arguably the most technically complex crimes ever. It tells the story from the perspective of the mastermind and surrounding criminals and loved ones. And then gives us a window into the lives and work of the government agents and their colleagues and loved ones. It is rife with intrigue and humanity. It ventures into government bureaucracy and the dictatorship that was the Silk Road. All the while, it reads easy like a best-selling crime fiction. Kudos and many thanks to the author for bringing all of this together.

Incredible. If you’re even remotely interested in the story behind the Silk Road this is an amazing read, I was on the edge of my seat towards the end on how it all played out and it was beautifully written by this author definitely recommended. I learned a lot I didn’t know about the case and the backstory as well that I didn’t read about in the news when it broke, if you like this book there’s a similar book with a similar title by Kevin Poulsen called “Kingpin” which is a similar writing style and it’s thrilling as well.

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The American Kingpin book written by Nick Bilton was published on 02 May 2017, Tuesday in the True Crime category. A total of 1,208 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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