Tracers in the Dark
Andy Greenberg | Cryptocurrency is in the news every day. It’s also fueling digital black markets, allowing criminals to move money more easily —whether for scams, money laundering, human trafficking, drug dealing, or any number of other crimes.
Using currencies with anonymous ledgers that have no government or industry oversight makes it much easier to move money across borders and much harder for law enforcement to recover it.
But investigators with the right skills and tools can trace crypto transactions across the blockchain. The information is there if you know how to use it. Andy Greenberg, an award-winning author and journalist, tells the story in Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency.
From Penguin House:
Andy Greenberg’s Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency is a story of crime and pursuit unlike any other. With unprecedented access to the major players in federal law enforcement and private industry, veteran cybersecurity reporter Andy Greenberg tells an astonishing saga of criminal empires built and destroyed. He introduces an IRS agent with a defiant streak, a Bitcoin-tracing Danish entrepreneur, and a colorful ensemble of hardboiled agents and prosecutors as they delve deep into the crypto-underworld. The result is a thrilling, globe-spanning story of dirty cops, drug bazaars, trafficking rings, and the biggest takedown of an online narcotics market in the history of the Internet.
Utterly of our time, Tracers in the Dark is a cat-and-mouse story and a tale of technological one-upmanship. Filled with canny maneuvering and shocking twists, it answers a provocative question: How would some of the world’s most brazen criminals behave if they were sure they could never get caught?
Learn more about Andy Greenberg and where to find Tracers in the Dark.
