# Dark Wire

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- Authors: [Joseph Cox](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-cox)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2024-06-20

## Description

The story of how the FBI secretly used an encrypted phone company to infiltrate one of the world's largest crime syndicates, revealing how the underworld has become a globalized economy in its own right--one that can't be policed without crossing complicated ethical boundaries. Written " in the manner of a good crime thriller" (The Wall Street Journal), the inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI created its own tech start-up to wiretap the world In 2018, a powerful app for secure communications called Anom took root among organized criminals. They believed Anom allowed them to conduct business in the shadows. Except for one thing: It was secretly run by the FBI. Backdoor access to Anom and a series of related investigations granted American, Australian, and European authorities a front-row seat to the underworld. Tens of thousands of criminals worldwide appeared in full view of the same agents they were trying to evade. International smugglers, money launderers, hitmen: a sprawling illicit global economy as efficient and interconnected as the legal one. Officers watched drug shipments and murder plots unfold, making arrests without blowing their cover. Featuring a new epilogue with crucial updates to the case, Dark Wire reveals the true scale and stakes of this unprecedented operation through the agents and criminals who were there. This is a fly-on-the-wall thriller for the modern world, where no one can be sure who is watching.

## Editions

### Dark Wire

- Publisher: publicaffairs
- ISBN: 978-15-4170-270-7
- Published: 2025-12-04
- Language: en_GB

### Dark Wire

- Publisher: publicaffairs
- ISBN: 978-15-4170-269-1
- Published: 2024-06-20
- Language: en_GB