![]() Soon, some of the Federal agents who were supposed to be hunting for Ulbricht were lured into the dark world and switched sides to join him. At one point, he engaged the services of hired hit men to take out employees he felt had wronged him. He gradually abandoned his libertarian ideals to rule Silk Road with increasingly authoritarian force. Ulbricht, in the meantime, struggled to maintain control of his double life and his marketplace, which he originally started to prove that legalising drugs could make society safer. The Silk Road soon caught the attention of the Feds, who embarked on an epic two-year manhunt for the site's proprietor. The site grew at a tremendous pace, quickly becoming a $1.2 billion enterprise where you could buy or sell drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, guns, grenades, and poisons. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2011, Ulbricht, a 26-year-old libertarian idealist and former Boy Scout, launched "a website where people could buy anything anonymously, with no trail whatsoever that could lead back to them." He called it Silk Road, opened for business on the Dark Web, and christened himself the Dread Pirate Roberts (after the Princess Bride character). Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of American Kingpin by Nick Bilton, read by Will Damron.įrom New York Times-bestselling author Nick Bilton comes a true-life thriller about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road. ![]()
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