Quotation
There is several pages inside the book on the "Silk Road" type of high tech criminal communities. Here is a short introduction:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/10/technology/deep-web/
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… It was a Zen question. Was a weapon you couldn’t trust a weapon at all?
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He liked fiction better than fact, because fact often wasn’t. Like most people he knew a couple of things for sure, up close and eyeballed, and when he saw them in books they were wrong. So he liked made-up stories better, because everyone knew where they were from the get-go.
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Once he had read a book about a cartel accountant, who spent five grand a month on rubber bands alone, just to package all the cash.