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Under and Alone

William Queen ISBN 0812969529

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This book by William Queen came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Katie Haun. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

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In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a "confidential informant" made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of the Mongols (the scourge of Southern California, and one of the most dangerous gangs in America), Queen jumped at the chance, not realizing that he was kick-starting the most extensive undercover operation inside an outlaw motorcycle gang in the history of American law enforcement.

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Katie Haun on the Dark Web, Gangs, Investigating Bitcoin, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show

“under an alone is a good read; that's a good read; i have gifted that book”
“under an alone is a good read by the way tim if you want some more true crime it's a best-selling new york times book”— Katie Haun

The guest here is Katie Haun: A general partner at Andreessen Horowitz who spent a decade as a federal prosecutor focused on fraud, cyber, and corporate crime. She created the government's first cryptocurrency task force, prosecuted the corrupt agents tied to the Silk Road, and serves on the boards of Coinbase and HackerOne. Former federal prosecutor Katie Haun on the Silk Road's corrupt agents, prosecuting gangs, and why blockchain cracked the case.

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