What happens when brilliant ambition meets unlimited greed in the digital age?

At 25, Alexandre Cazes was living every tech entrepreneur's dream-except his "startup" was the world's largest criminal marketplace. From his luxury penthouse in Thailand, this Canadian computer genius ran AlphaBay, a dark web empire that facilitated over $1 billion in illegal transactions.

But in the shadows of the internet, even kings can fall.

Digital Kingpin takes you inside the rise and spectacular collapse of one of history's most audacious cybercriminals. Through meticulous research and exclusive insights, James G. Edwards II reveals how a young programmer's technical brilliance became his ultimate downfall, and how an international manhunt brought down the dark web's most powerful figure.

This is the untold story of digital crime, unlimited ambition, and the price of building an empire on forbidden ground.