With his relentless and fearless reporting, Evan Ratliff has pried open a hidden world filled with high-tech gangsters and drug kingpins and double-crossers and stone-cold hitmen. The story is as fascinating as it is terrifying, and one that will hold you in its grip. * David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z * One of the most prodigious criminal masterminds or modern times. Compelling... meticulously researched and written with a feverish intensity. A masterwork of investigative journalism. * Daily Mail * A true crime classic. * Publishers Weekly * This is a riveting, mesmerizing, absolutely bonkers story about a man as brilliant as he is villainous. You'll find yourself sucked in, freaked out, and, ultimately, blown away by Ratliff's storytelling and tireless reporting. The Mastermind is a masterpiece. * Nicholas Thompson, editor in chief, Wired * The best book I read this year. It is the insane story of an internet drug lord and the years it took to bring him down. I read this with my heart in my throatnot just because of the violence and mystery, but because it made me jealous as a journalist (howd he find that out?) and, though it is a true story, as a novelist. -- Taffy Brodesser-Akner, author of Fleishman Is in Trouble * GQ - Best Books of 2019 * Darkly fascinating and truly gripping. A crazy story. Ratliff reports exhaustively and writes soberly... a brilliant book... a suitably wild parable for a digitally deranged age. * Irish Times * If truth is stranger than fiction, then The Mastermind is the truest book youll read this year. The only thing predictable about it is how quickly youll turn the pages. * Noah Hawley, author of Before the Fall and creator of the TV series Fargo * A tour de force of shoe-leather reporting undertaken, amid threats and menacing, at considerable personal risk. Ratliffs reportage unfolds in crisp, atmospheric prose, and he brings a dispassionate eye to a milieu lousy with unreliable narrators, triangulating where possible to separate fact from legend. * LA Times * As directors, we spend countless hours imagining heightened plots and memorable characters that will leave a lasting impression on audiences. The true tale of obsession, genius, intrigue, and vengeance detailed in The Mastermind is as gripping and cinematic as anything we could endeavor to conjure up. * Joe and Anthony Russo, directors of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, and Avengers: Infinity War * A wholly engrossing story that joins the worlds of El Chapo and Edward Snowden; both disturbing and memorable. * Kirkus Reviews *
