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

The online world was his stage; he just needed to decide who would come out from behind the curtain.

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.

How quickly life changes. One minute you’re making $300 a week as a college researcher. You’re sleeping in a basement and your only belongings are two black garbage bags, one full of clean clothes, the other dirty, and your biggest worry in the world is whether the pretty girl with the black curly hair whom you just met at the drum circle will call

And what did Ross have on his résumé? Two degrees and a series of dead ends.

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

She peered at men in the grocery store and wondered if they were undercover cops who knew that she lived with the man who had started the Silk Road.

“As long as we don’t cross [a] line in our pursuit,” DPR wrote to Variety Jones, “then we are only doing good.” “Ha, dude, we’re criminal drug dealers,” VJ responded. “What line shouldn’t we cross?” “Murder, theft, cheating, lying; hurting people,” DPR replied, resentful of the question. “That line. We are drawing a new line I guess you could say.

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.

There was no fate worse to him than losing control of what he had built.