by Misha Glenny
Thanks also to Brooks Decillia from CBC in Calgary for his selfless research. Likewise, Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson came to my rescue in Stockholm.
Two people have helped me in the background with technical issues. In Helsinki, Mikko Hyppönen, Chief Research Officer of F-Secure and Vicente Diaz of Kaspersky Labs in Barcelona were always available to help me get my head round things I simply could not understand. I also received much wise advice regarding more general cyber security issues from Rex Hughes at Wolfson College, Cambridge.
I also want to thank the following people who helped me in a variety of different ways: Allison Culliford, Luke Dembosky, Sophie Devonshire, Joris Evers, Detective Spencer Frizzell, Tamara Glenny, Camino Kavanagh, Suat Kınıklıog˘lu, Dirk Kolberg, Darryl Leaning, Melissa Llewelyn-Davies, Jane McClellan Q.C., Mark Medish, Steve Milner, Jaan Prisaalu, Colin Robinson, Anya Stiglitz and Eneken Tikk.
My agents and publishers have been unstinting in their support. Clare Conville in London is as good an agent as one can imagine, backed by a wonderful team. Michael Carlisle provides an equally dynamic service in New York. I am fortunate to have a trio of editors, Will Sulkin at The Bodley Head, Dan Frank at Knopf and Sarah MacLachlan at Anansi Press, who have both made the writing experience more manageable while greatly enhancing the final product. If errors have crept in, I, naturally, bear full responsibility for them. I would also like to thank two others who have had a significant impact on the book, Kay Peddle at The Bodley Head and Janie Yoon at Anansi.
My three children to whom this work is dedicated have maintained a healthy interest in the book despite the fact that I have been frequently both absent and absent-minded while writing. They have never been anything less than cheerful and supportive.
And finally my thanks and love to Kirsty Lang, my wife, who has commented, critiqued, cajoled and kept me afloat throughout. Not for the first time, I could not have done it without her.
June 2011
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MISHA GLENNY is the international bestselling author of McMafia: A Journey through the Global Criminal Underworld, The Rebirth of History, The Fall of Yugoslavia (winner of the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Book on Foreign Affairs) and The Balkans: 1804–1999. He was an International Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. He has worked as a political consultant in southeastern Europe, and is regularly consulted by U.S. and European governments on major policy issues. He is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines such as the Guardian, London Review of Books, Globe and Mail, New Statesman, Washington Post and Financial Times. He lives in London, U.K.
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
House of Anansi Press was founded in 1967 with a mandate to publish Canadian-authored books, a mandate that continues to this day even as the list has branched out to include internationally acclaimed thinkers and writers. The press immediately gained attention for significant titles by notable writers such as Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, George Grant, and Northrop Frye. Since then, Anansi’s commitment to finding, publishing and promoting challenging, excellent writing has won it tremendous acclaim and solid staying power. Today Anansi is Canada’s pre-eminent independent press, and home to nationally and internationally bestselling and acclaimed authors such as Gil Adamson, Margaret Atwood, Ken Babstock, Peter Behrens, Rawi Hage, Misha Glenny, Jim Harrison, A. L. Kennedy, Pasha Malla, Lisa Moore, A. F. Moritz, Eric Siblin, Karen Solie, and Ronald Wright. Anansi is also proud to publish the award-winning nonfiction series The CBC Massey Lectures. In 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011 Anansi was honoured by the Canadian Booksellers Association as “Publisher of the Year.”
Table of Contents
Cover
Openers
Prologue
Book One
Part I
1: An Inspector Calls
2: Miranda Speaks of a Brave New World
3: Mr Hyde of Lagos
Part II
4: The Odessa Files
5: CarderPlanet
6: A Family Affair
7: Boa Constricted
8: Script Rewrite
Part III
9: Tiger, Tiger
10: Game Theory
11: No Turning Back
12: A Passage to India
13: Shadowlands
Part IV
14: The Iceman Cometh
15: CardersMarket
16: DarkMarket
17: The Office
18: Suspicious Minds
19: Donnie Brasco
20: A Cunning Plan
Part V
21: The Dron Legacy
22: Dude You Fucked Up
23: Matrix Squared
24: The French Connection
25: The Invisible Man
Interlude
The Land of I Know Not What and I Know Not Where
Book two
Part I
26: Bilal in Pittsburgh
27: The Sublime Portal
Part II
28: Ciao, Cha0
29: Softly Softly
Part III
Orientation
30: The Dream World of Mert Ortaç
31: A Servant of Two Masters
32: Turkish Delight
33: Return to Hades
34: Turkey Shoot
35: The Death of DarkMarket
Part IV
36: Double Jeopardy
37: Zorro Unmasked
38: Who Are You?
39: On the Road to Nowhere
40: Midday Express
Epilogue
A Note on Sources
Acknowledgements
About the Author
About the Publisher
