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The incredible true story of the decade-long
quest to bring down Paul Le Roux—the creator
of a powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged
the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the techno-
logical savvy of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur

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.