Books like 'The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away with It'
Readers who enjoyed The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away with It by Jamie Bartlett also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
true-crime crime technology journalism
-
True Crime Ultimate Collection: The Stories of Real Murders & Mysteries: Must-Read Mystery Accounts - Real Life Stories: The Secret of the Moat Farm, The ... England Frauds, The Trial of the Seddons… by Edgar Wallace
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis carefully crafted "True Crime Ultimate The Stories of Real Murders & Mysteries" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer. As well as journalism, Wallace wrote screen plays, poetry, historical non-fiction, 18 stage plays, 957 short stories and over 170 novels, 12 in 1929 alone... -
![Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger]()
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"This is as important a book on space as has ever been written and it's a riveting page-turner, too." —Homer Hickam, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Rocket BoysThe dramatic inside story of the historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky startup into the world's leading-edge rocket company.SpaceX has enjoyed a miraculous decade... -
![My James: The Heartrending Story of James Bulger by His Father by Ralph Bulger, Rosie Dunn]()
My James: The Heartrending Story of James Bulger by His Father by Ralph Bulger, Rosie Dunn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA powerful, heartfelt and moving account of his son's murder and his fight for justice by Ralph BulgerJames Bulger was just a few weeks shy of his third birthday when, on 12 February 1993, he wandered away from his mum Denise in a shopping mall in Bootle. Grainy images from a security camera showed him trustingly holding the hand of ten-year-old Jon Venables as they walked away... -
![Lockdown by Drauzio Varella]()
Lockdown by Drauzio Varella
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne doctor's account of 10 years spent treating inmates in the Casa de Detenção, Brazil's largest and harshest prison.The Carandiru House of Detention, in the teeming city of São Paulo, was the largest and most crowded prison in Latin America. Known as the "Old House," it was also highly unusual in the way it was governed... -
-
![Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg]()
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOver the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrency. Crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of the internet have operated more freely—whether in drug dealing, money laundering, or human trafficking—than their analog counterparts could have ever dreamed of... -
![The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby]()
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Economist“A gripping fly-on-the-wall story of the rise of this unique and important industry based on extensive interviews with some of the most successful venture capitalists... -
![A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer]()
A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Child Called "It"This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead... -
![The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell]()
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what the company's epic unraveling exposes about Silicon Valley's delusions and the financial system's desperate hunger to cash in--from the Wall Street Journal reporters whose scoops hastened the company's downfall.In 2001, Adam Neumann arrived in New York after five years as a conscript in the Israeli navy... -
![Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux]()
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it; and TV ads hailed it as the future of money... -
![Casos de Família by Ilana Casoy]()
Casos de Família by Ilana Casoy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsO assassinato do casal Richthofen e de Isabella Nardoni foram reunidos em um só livro e trazem novos detalhes observados por quem estava nos bastidores... -
![Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, a Deadly Disease by Jason Dearen]()
Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, a Deadly Disease by Jason Dearen
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNow in paperback. An award-winning investigative journalist's horrifying true crime story of America's deadliest drug contamination outbreak and the greed and deception that fueled it.Two pharmacists sit in a Boston courtroom accused of murder. The the fungus Exserohilum rostratum . The death 100 and rising... -
![When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein]()
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWith a new Afterword addressing today’s financial crisisA BUSINESS WEEK BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn this business classic—now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent financial crisis—Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping roller-coaster ride of Long-Term Capital Management... -
![The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison by Jacques Pauw]()
The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison by Jacques Pauw
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsInvestigative journalist Jacques Pauw exposes the darkest secret at the heart of Jacob Zuma’s compromised a cancerous cabal that eliminates the president’s enemies and purges the law-enforcement agencies of good men and women... -
![Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America by Christopher Leonard]()
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America by Christopher Leonard
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsChristopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America.The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and US Steel combined... -
-
![Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara]()
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation―and the moral implications that affect us all...Categorized as:
technology journalism true-crime non-fiction politics audiobook social-commentary colonization -
![How Music Got Free: What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime? by Stephen Richard Witt]()
How Music Got Free: What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime? by Stephen Richard Witt
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat happens when an entire generation commits the same crime?How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy teenagers. It’s about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal website four times the size of the iTunes Music Store... -
![Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis]()
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 37 ratings#1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new AfterwordIn Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together—some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries—to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that Wall Street generates profits... -
![Sara Payne: A Mother's Story by Sara Payne]()
Sara Payne: A Mother's Story by Sara Payne
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'Thank God we have found her.' Sara Payne's words as she announced that the body of her daughter - snatched and murdered by paedophile, Roy Whiting - had finally been found. In this memoir, Sara tells her personal story. She describes the numbness as she waited for seventeen days, desperate to hear news of her missing daughter, and the terrible moment when her worst fears became reality... -
![Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking by Lydia Cacho]()
Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking by Lydia Cacho
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIllegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, willfully blind politicians, eager consumers, and countless hapless women and children... -
![Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert]()
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsComputers have completely changed the way we teach children. We have Mindstorms to thank for that. In this book, pioneering computer scientist Seymour Papert uses the invention of LOGO, the first child-friendly programming language, to make the case for the value of teaching children with computers... -
![The Chip by T.R. Reid]()
The Chip by T.R. Reid
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThroughout the 1950s, engineers were stymied by the problem of how to connect the thousands of circuits that a sophisticated computer would require. The solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans, Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. Independently, each had hit upon the stunning Monolithic Idea, which became the silicon microchip... -
![King Richard: Nixon and Watergate — An American Tragedy by Michael Dobbs]()
King Richard: Nixon and Watergate — An American Tragedy by Michael Dobbs
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn January 1973, Richard Nixon had just been inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic landslide. But by April 1973, his presidency had fallen apart as the Watergate scandal metastasized into what White House counsel John Dean called ‘a full-blown cancer’... -
![Nemesis: One Man and the Battle For Rio by Misha Glenny]()
Nemesis: One Man and the Battle For Rio by Misha Glenny
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn explosive vision of contemporary Brazil’s underbelly by one of our greatest investigative reporters. This is a book about a man known as Nem; about Rocinha, the slum or “favela” he grew up in and came to run as a private fiefdom; about Rio, the beautiful but damned city that Rocinha exists in; and about the battle for Brazil...Categorized as:
crime true-crime journalism non-fiction politics audiobook substance-abuse organized-crime -
![Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History by Liam Vaughan]()
Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History by Liam Vaughan
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe riveting story of a trading prodigy who amassed $70 million from his childhood bedroom--until the government accused him of helping trigger an unprecedented market collapse *Soon to be a feature film starring Dev Patel*On May 6, 2010, financial markets around the world tumbled simultaneously and without warning. In the span of five minutes, a trillion dollars of valuation was lost... -
-
![Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein]()
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMoney only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st century.At the heart of the story are the fringe thinkers and world leaders who reimagined money... -
![Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin-Wallis]()
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy — and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry—the secretive multi-billion dollar world that...Categorized as:
journalism technology non-fiction politics audiobook outdoors pollution-climate-change -
![Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac]()
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world, yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley... -
![Tremblez ! by McSkyz]()
Tremblez ! by McSkyz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsQuatre amis assassinés au bord d’un lac en Finlande, une famille de fermiers tuée en France, une jeune maman torturée en Grèce, une adolescente disparue en Australie… Les histoires que vous allez lire sont toutes vraies et ont fait les gros titres des journaux ces dernières années... -
![Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall by Elizabeth Drew]()
Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall by Elizabeth Drew
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRe-issued forty years after the tumultuous events that led to Richard Nixon’s historic downfall, a new edition of the legendary Elizabeth Drew’s Washington Journal, featuring a brilliant new afterword. Originally published soon after Richard Nixon's resignation, Elizabeth Drew’s Washington Journal is a landmark work of political journalism... -
![Broken and Betrayed: The True Story of the Rotherham Abuse Scandal by the Woman Who Fought to Expose It by Jayne Senior]()
Broken and Betrayed: The True Story of the Rotherham Abuse Scandal by the Woman Who Fought to Expose It by Jayne Senior
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor fourteen years, Jayne Senior tried to help girls from Rotherham who had been groomed, raped, tortured, pimped and threatened with violence by sex traffickers...
Or - use our amazing romance book finder to get recommendations based on your favorite content tropes and themes. Mix and match at will.
