DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia

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The essential crime book of our times, from the author of the bestselling McMafia. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2012 We live our lives online - banking, shopping, working, dating - but have we become complacent? Who's got your money? We share our personal details, our thoughts and movements with a faceless screen, with no real idea what lies behind it. Who's got your identity? DarkMarket exposes the shocking truth about what lurks behind our computers- an underground crime network that invades our privacy and threatens our security on a daily basis. Who's got your life? Glenny tracks down the key players - including criminals, national and international security experts, police, crack addicts, the Saudi Royal Family, and most importantly, victims - to reveal the true scale of this new global threat. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2012

Misha Glenny is a distinguished journalist and historian. As the Central Europe Correspondent first for the Guardian and then for the BBC, he chronicled the collapse of communism and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He won the Sony Gold Award for outstanding contribution to broadcasting. The author of four books, including the acclaimed McMafia, he has been regularly consulted by the US and European governments on major policy issues and ran an NGO for three years, assisting with the reconstruction of Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo. He now lives in London. website: www.darkmarketinsider.com twitter: @MishaGlenny

Eye-popping... A real life crime thriller * Mail on Sunday * A page-turner... This is a gripping tale, brilliantly researched * Sunday Times * Compulsive, thriller-paced reading * Metro * Glenny is skilful at taking a world that might seem impenetrable and esoteric and making it seem human... The story Glenny tells is fascinating * Sunday Telegraph * Like a thriller...gripping * Guardian *