Cast of Characters

The Silk Road

The Dread Pirate Roberts (Ross Ulbricht)

Variety Jones, consigliere and mentor (Roger Thomas Clark)

Nob, drug dealer and henchman (Carl Force, DEA)

ChronicPain, forum moderator (Curtis Green, Spanish Fork, Utah)

Richard Bates, friend and programmer

OTHER SILK ROAD EMPLOYEES

SameSameButDifferent, Libertas, Inigo, Smedley

Law Enforcement

DHS, CHICAGO

Jared Der-Yeghiayan (undercover as “Cirrus” on the Silk Road)

MARCO POLO TASK FORCE

Carl Force, DEA, Baltimore (undercover as “Nob” on the Silk Road)

Mike McFarland, DHS, Baltimore

Shaun Bridges, Secret Service, Baltimore

FBI, NEW YORK CITY

Chris Tarbell

Thom Kiernan

Ilhwan Yum

IRS, NEW YORK CITY

Gary Alford

U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, NEW YORK CITY

Serrin Turner, assistant U.S. attorney