Nick Bilton is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, where he writes about technology, business, and culture, and a contributor at CNBC. He was a columnist for The New York Times for almost a decade. His most recent book, Hatching Twitter, was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, son, and dog, Pixel.
“An astonishingly well-researched narrative… Bilton's storytelling
bears not so much as a trace of fat; the book he's conjured is so
sharp and bright that it can be whipped through in the airport
lounge before the flight takes off."
—The Globe and Mail
"Unbelievably riveting."
—CASEY NEISTAT
“I dare you not to read this book in one sitting. Masterfully
reported and written, Bilton’s book drops you hard into the dark
heart of the most famous Internet crime to date. A first-rate
thrill.”
—JOSHUA COOPER RAMO, author of The Seventh Sense
“Nick Bilton has issued a fantastic modern true-crime thriller. The
book moves at a stunning pace while packed full of exquisite
reporting and detail. It delivers a vivid picture of what happens
when genius, ambition, and depravity collide, as well as a study on
the complex interplay between good and evil.”
—ASHLEE VANCE, author of Elon Musk
“Engrossing, addictive, suspenseful, riveting—this book hooked me
on page one and I could not put it down. American Kingpin is the
best thing I’ve read in ages. I can’t recommend it highly
enough.”
—DAN LYONS, author of Disrupted
“In American Kingpin, Nick Bilton again proves why he’s one of
tech’s best storytellers with a stunningly researched and very
scary portrait of the creator of a marketplace gone mad, and the
oddly uncoordinated officers who took him down.”
—STEVEN LEVY, author of Hackers and In the Plex
“You’ll never forget Bilton’s portrait of the brilliant and brazen
Ross Ulbricht, even after you sacrifice sleep in a sprint to the
final pages and to see justice served.”
—BRAD STONE, author of The Everything Store and The Upstarts
“A rollicking, deftly reported tale of the Dark Web. I couldn’t put
it down.”
—CLIVE THOMPSON, author of Smarter Than You Think
“Bilton’s investigation of the Silk Road is dramatic and, at times,
nearly unbelievable. It puts your favorite thriller novels to
shame.”
—STEVEN PRESSFIELD, author of Gates of Fire
“Nick Bilton is the only writer who could tell this suspenseful
story. American Kingpin is engrossing at every turn, right up to
its pulse-racing ending.”
—ADAM LASHINSKY, author of Wild Ride
“American Kingpin is both a staggering feat of investigative
journalism and a triumph of edge-of-your-seat storytelling. This is
what true-crime writing should be.”
—BRYAN BURROUGH, author of Days of Rage
"A fast-paced, readable true-crime tale that frames the likely
future of the underground economy."
—Kirkus Reviews
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