Instead he tells a lurid cops-and-crooks story. Nor does he delve much into the legal and ethical issues surrounding the drug war. Similarly, while the ostensible topic of American Kingpin is an amazing combination of technologies that produced something new under the sun-a way to buy drugs that tended to be safe from the law as well as from rip-offs and overdoses-Bilton doesn't seriously explore the technical or social side of Silk Road. Its flaws resemble those of Bilton's previous book, the 2013 bestseller Hatching Twitter (Portfolio/Penguin), which largely ignored the social media platform's meaning to its users or the world at large, instead dishing on the founders' squabbles over control, credit, and money. Nick Bilton's American Kingpin is the story of the hunt for Ross Ulbricht, the man behind the website Silk Road. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road, by Nick Bilton, Portfolio/Penguin, 329 pages, $27 Portfolio/Penguin
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