- Author: Joseph Menn
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This is one of the few books that I have read that has only a handful of reviews on Amazon. I got this through a colleague at work and it was just published a couple of months ago so that may be one of the reasons for the limited reviews. It is on a topic that is near and dear to anyone who has anything to do with the Internet and is subtitled "The hunt for the new crime lords who are bringing down the internet".
The previews and the initial chapters look very promising as the book attempts to chronicle the sordid tales behind online gambling sites. However the author is unable to tell a good story or simply does not have the information he needs to build on any of these events. He jumps from story to story and it is very difficult to follow the thread, if indeed there is one. He does make a few points in the book about the real criminals that are behind some of the gambling operations as well as the complicity of some of the Eastern Block governments with this new breed of cybercriminals. But the disconnected narrative is very hard to follow and I was thankful that the book was only 250 pages in size and had double spaced font. I would not recommend this book unless you are eager to learn about some of the specific events that are described in the book.
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