Media and Appearances

Now In Paperback!

Order Online

Advance Praise

“The lead figures of KINGPIN are brilliant, crooked geeks and the sleazy women who love to help them steal. Their mortal enemies are a cyber-savvy swarm of undercover cops. Kevin Poulsen gets so close to these paranoid, shadowy people that you can smell the sweat on the keyboards and hear the handcuffs clack shut. No other book can match this intimate, expert portrait of a truly modern criminal underworld.”

--Bruce Sterling, Hugo Award-winning novelist and futurist

“With the tense drama and future shock of a William Gibson novel, Kevin Poulsen spins a scary-true tale of the dark-side hacker underground and its most adept sorcerer, known as The Iceman. After reading Kingpin, you might want to convert your holdings from cyber-dollars to precious metals.”

--Steven Levy, author of Hackers and Crypto

More ...

Reviews

“The author is especially adept at conjuring a world that very few will ever hope to understand. ... He had me laughing a time or two at the sheer brazenness of the schemes. ... [A] brisk and entertaining tale.”

--The New York Times

“A milestone in the anthropology of hacking.”

--The Atlantic
More reviews ...

About the Author

Kevin Poulsen is an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor at WIRED magazine. More ...

Also …

Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay

How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love