Dark Web Kingpin: The True Story of the Man Who Built a Multi-Million-Dollar Illicit Trade on the Silk Road

In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old with a physics degree and a laptop built the world's first online black market from a rented room in San Francisco.
He called it the Silk Road.
He was not a gangster. He had no criminal record, no cartel connections, no history of violence. He had a libertarian philosophy, and a single, consuming belief - that the government had no right to tell people what they could buy or sell and that the internet could prove it.
Hidden inside the darkest corner of the intern...