American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton

4.31 AVERAGE

marcrice's review against another edition

4.0
Well written, interesting story told in a narrative fashion
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tinmanreads's review against another edition

5.0
informative fast-paced

sarahmosher's review against another edition

4.0
Really good. Missing information in some parts. I’m sure there was a lot of information to dig through and decide what all to include in the book but it was never explained how they found a server in Iceland, and why it was there (?? Literally had to ask Derek and he didn’t really understand what I was even asking). Also the author never thanks Julia in the acknowledgments but it felt like he had a lot of information from her either through interviews or other sources?? Happy for Julia that according to her instagram she has a daughter and a nice man! That girlie really went through it!! Also dying to know how Ross met his current wife bc she was never mentioned in the book

dickie95's review against another edition

4.5
challenging dark informative tense fast-paced

zfriedland's review against another edition

4.25
dark mysterious tense medium-paced

erictho's review against another edition

4.0
informative
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driftwood42's review against another edition

4.25
dark informative tense fast-paced

sherstew29's review against another edition

5.0
dark informative mysterious tense slow-paced
I loved this. I was shook the whole time
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___puddin's review against another edition

2.0
dark informative slow-paced
I'm sorry to say, but I hated this book. It very much gave the vibe of written by someone a generation older then a millennial, written for that same generation, but staring one of the most recognisible criminals of the millennial generation. We millennials are not the target audience here I fear. 
Honestly there are a million more entertaining video essays of this story online. Plus the whole non-fiction book written as a novel thing annoyed the arse off me. 

hekate24's review against another edition

4.0
Popsugar reading challenge: A book about pirates

Okay this is stretching the theme a bit but I feel like I read the phrase “dread pirate roberts” 100,000 times sooooo is it really?