Mastermind / Hon na nejproduktivnějšího zločince 21. století – Ratliff Evan (2022)

It all started as an online prescription drug network that supplied American customers with painkillers worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But that was just the beginning. Soon, this business evolved into a vast multinational conglomerate involved in nearly every conceivable aspect of criminal chaos. Yachts transporting cocaine worth $100 million. Vaults in Hong Kong filled with gold bars. Shipments of methamphetamine from North Korea. Arms deals with Iran. Mercenary armies in Somalia. Teams of hitmen in the Philippines. Encryption programs so sophisticated that the government couldn't break them. Behind it all was Paul Calder Le Roux, pulling the strings from a laptop in Manila - a reclusive programmer who became a criminal mastermind that could only exist in the networked world of the 21st century, and a crime boss that American law enforcement could never have 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. Every time they got close to him, he slipped away. His capture required tireless investigative work and shocking betrayal from within his organization. And when he was finally caught, the story took another turn, because...