The Secret Life
Three True Stories of the Digital Age
From the award-winning author of The Illuminations, a significant and timely work of non-fiction by one of the most important writers of his generation.
Julian Assange, a man who, five years ago, seemed to herald a new, enlightened form of democracy—until, that is, the apparent heroism of WikiLeaks became compromised by his hubris and paranoia. Satoshi Nakamoto, another man who radically reshaped the business of information and secrecy on a global scale. He is known as the elusive inventor of Bitcoin, but who is the real Satoshi —a lone wolf or a collective of individuals with the talent to reimagine the financial wheel? And Ronald Pinn, a man who does not exist at all, except in the furthest, darkest reaches of…