Review
"(A)gripping book that show(s) how the authorities often find themselves out of their depth when criminals get to grips with doing 'business" Internet style." --New Scientist, 30 January 2010 "FT business reporter Menn spins racy tales of true-life cybercrime. An American whiz-kid protects American online-betting businesses run out of Costa Rica from a gang of Russian hacker-extortionists, who aer soon also being chased down by a British agent of the Hi-Tech Crime Unit (as was), who on the way has a vodka-fuelled picnic punchup with his investigative ally, a Russian colonel. The villains glory in handles such as "Bra1n", and the heroes are portrayed respectively as Matthew Broderick from Wargames and Daniel Craig's Bond, but the narrative glitter is sprinkled on top of serious and thorough reporting." --The Guardian, February 20, 2010"