Evan Ratliff

The Mastermind

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The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux—the creator of a frighteningly powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the technological savvy of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur
“Evan Ratliff has pried open a hidden world of high-tech gangsters and drug kingpins and double-crossers and stone-cold hitmen.”—David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon
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…
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    Once, sitting on a plane next to a relative, he pulled out his tablet to show off something. “He got all flustered and shy, and wanted me to see his ‘greatest achievement,’ ” the relative said. “It was an article written by him for some travel magazine. I read it and was astounded, it was really good.” Le Roux told them he’d been submitting stories under pseudonyms for years without success. “He wanted to be a writer.It was his greatest ambition.”
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    I’d like to claim that this was some kind of linear process, a journalist-turned-detective expertly following a trail of breadcrumbs down the path to the secret lair. But, in truth, people and stories came to me scattershot, and I found myself constantly circling back to reevaluate some fact that I’d been told before. I piled up puzzle pieces and then sifted through them, seeking connections, and then set out to pile up some more.
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    He’d had good parents, after all. But something about his name being listed as “unknown” on the certificate seemed to haunt him. “She could have put down any name,” he told the relative. “But she put ‘unknown.’ ” Years later, the relative would remember the discovery as the moment when something changed. “I have always felt that was a main driving point in his life. He needed to be someone, be known.”

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