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Search - The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.

The Mastermind Drugs Empire Murder Betrayal
Author: Evan Ratliff

The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux?the creator of a frighteningly powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the technological savvy of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur — ?Evan Ratliff has pried open a hidden world of high-tech gangsters and drug kingpins and double-cro... more »ssers and stone-cold hitmen.??David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon

It all started as an online prescription drug network, supplying hundreds of millions of dollars? worth of painkillers to American customers. It would not stop there. Before long, the business had turned into a sprawling multinational conglomerate engaged in almost every conceivable aspect of criminal mayhem. Yachts carrying $100 million in cocaine. Safe houses in Hong Kong filled with gold bars. Shipments of methamphetamine from North Korea. Weapons deals with Iran. Mercenary armies in Somalia. Teams of hit men in the Philippines. Encryption programs so advanced that the government could not break them.

The man behind it all, pulling the strings from a laptop in Manila, was Paul Calder Le Roux?a reclusive programmer turned criminal genius who could only exist in the networked world of the twenty-first century, and the kind of self-made crime boss that American law enforcement had never imagined.

For half a decade, DEA agents played a global game of cat-and-mouse with Le Roux as he left terror and chaos in his wake. Each time they came close, he would slip away. It would take relentless investigative work, and a shocking betrayal from within his organization, to catch him. And when he was finally caught, the story turned again, as Le Roux struck a deal to bring down his own organization and the people he had once employed.

Award-winning investigative journalist Evan Ratliff spent four years piecing together this intricate puzzle, chasing Le Roux?s empire and his shadowy henchmen around the world, conducting hundreds of interviews and uncovering thousands of documents. The result is a riveting, unprecedented account of a crime boss built by and for the digital age.

Advance praise for The Mastermind

?A true crime classic??Publishers Weekly (starred review)

?If truth is stranger than fiction, then The Mastermind is the truest book you?ll read this year. The only thing predictable about it is how quickly you?ll turn the pages.??Noah Hawley, author of Before the Fall and creator of the TV series Fargo

ISBN-13: 9780399590412
ISBN-10: 0399590412
Publication Date: 1/29/2019
Pages: 480
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Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Hardcover
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