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A review by erinstewart
The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives... The Inside Story of the Internet's Evil Twin by Eileen Ormsby
5.0
The fact that so much of our lives is played out online provides an interesting challenge for writers: how do you make a text engaging when many key events involved someone typing onto their computer and/or accessing websites? It's not exactly a captivating image. But this book is super-engaging, Eileen Ormsby has found a way for the virtual to be rendered undoubtedly real and compelling.
The book focuses on some very dark stories from the dark web (sorted into dark, darker, and darkest, and given that 'dark' involves kill for hire schemes and the workings of an online drug empire, you better believe that the stuff discussed in both 'darker' and 'darkest' are truly dark). It's an impressive book: the amount of work that would have been involved in researching these stories and fashioning them into clear narratives is astounding. Plus, it's important ground to cover. Not many people know about the workings of the dark web, but given its applications in all kinds of crime, we probably should be better informed.
The book focuses on some very dark stories from the dark web (sorted into dark, darker, and darkest, and given that 'dark' involves kill for hire schemes and the workings of an online drug empire, you better believe that the stuff discussed in both 'darker' and 'darkest' are truly dark). It's an impressive book: the amount of work that would have been involved in researching these stories and fashioning them into clear narratives is astounding. Plus, it's important ground to cover. Not many people know about the workings of the dark web, but given its applications in all kinds of crime, we probably should be better informed.