The Missing Cryptoqueen

The Missing Cryptoqueen investigates a con that made Theranos look like small fry… The tragic account of how it happened is an astonishing read, plunging you into a toxic world of Insta-wealth, betrayal and ruthless ambition * The Telegraph *A great story and a spectacular con * The Spectator *Outrageously entertaining… populated with the kind of gaudy crooks, ambitious crackpots and tragically hopeful hustlers we’d expect from a Coen brothers comedy. One can only hope this shocking, compulsively readable story serves as a cautionary tale * Irish Times *A story of a very modern scam full of intrigue * The i *A gripping read. Jamie Bartlett races through this compelling tale of corruption, ambition and intrigue * Irish Independent *Bartlett skilfully [presents] OneCoin’s turbulent history like a thriller * Reaction (Books Digest) *

Jamie Bartlett is the bestselling author of The Dark Net, Radicals, and The People Vs Tech, which was longlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and won the 2019 Transmission Prize. He founded the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos and regularly writes on technology and society for the Spectator, the Sunday Times and elsewhere. In 2017 Jamie presented the two-part BBC TWO documentary series The Secrets of Silicon Valley. His TedTalk about dark net drugs markets has been watched nearly six million times. In 2019 his critically acclaimed BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen reached number 1 on the iTunes charts, and has been downloaded millions of times.