American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web

With these hints, and others, he searched through the list of incoming passengers arriving at O’Hare who fit his profile. Eventually he identified an inbound passenger who he believed would be smuggling the drug.

he did it with such beauty and so adroitly that, to him at least, the very sin was absolved by the manner in which it was carried out.

Amazon had begun as a virtual bookstore before becoming our everything supermarket. And Google, which had started as a search engine, was trying to build cars that could drive themselves.

The metamorphosis from rash young newbie to jaded old-timer had happened slowly.

The CEOs of these other start-ups were no different from Ross, either. They had all read the same Ayn Rand books. These chief executives shared the same quotes on Facebook as he did: “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” The leaders of these companies all preached the same verbiage as the Dread Pirate Roberts to

the paper that referenced the “Gambler’s Ruin problem,” a theory that no matter how much money you have in a betting scenario, the casino (or house) has an infinite amount of money, and therefore, if you keep making bets, the house will eventually win.

“I’ve had my youth, and I know you must take away my middle years, but please leave me my old age.”

Over time he learned that the way to have a leg up on everyone else was to anticipate something before it happened and then have the answer to it.

That evening, after the kids had been tucked into bed and kissed good night, Tarbell and Sabrina sat across from each other at the kitchen table. They both had handguns next to them in case someone tried to enter the home.