// What to read next
What to read after Tracers in the Dark
Where to go after Tracers in the Dark, picked from our catalog. The next step up from beginner level, weighted toward the topics this book covers.
01 · 2010
Cybercriminalité
A practitioner's treatment of cybercrime law — offences, procedure, and the application of criminal law to digital crime — by a French magistrate specialised in the field.
Intermediate3/5Myriam Quéméner, Yves Charpenel02 · 2017
American Kingpin
A propulsive account of how Ross Ulbricht built the Silk Road dark-web drug empire as Dread Pirate Roberts, and how a handful of investigators across rival agencies finally unmasked him.
Beginner5/5Nick Bilton03 · 2024
OSINT Techniques
Michael Bazzell's relentlessly updated technical manual for finding people, accounts, breach data, geolocation evidence, and online identifiers — the de facto reference of the modern OSINT field.
Intermediate5/5Michael Bazzell04 · 2023
Cybercriminalité
Solange Ghernaouti's structured treatment of cybercrime — how it works, how to prevent it, how to respond — spanning technical, legal and organisational angles.
Intermediate3/5Solange Ghernaouti05 · 2018
Open Source Intelligence Techniques and Tools
Hassan and Hijazi's pedagogical introduction to OSINT framed inside the broader intelligence cycle (collection → processing → analysis → dissemination) rather than around a specific toolchain.
Beginner3/5Nihad A. Hassan, Rami Hijazi06 · 2011
Kingpin
Kevin Poulsen's reconstruction of Max Butler's career — from white-hat consultant to running CardersMarket, the carding forum that consolidated the early-2000s underground — and the FBI investigation that finally took him down.
Beginner5/5Kevin Poulsen07 · 2022
Cyberattaques
A clear, journalistic decoding of the cyberattack ecosystem — ransomware gangs, state actors, and the economics and geopolitics behind the headlines — by one of France's best-known cyber experts.
Beginner4/5Gérôme Billois, Nicolas Cougot08 · 2014
Spam Nation
Brian Krebs's investigative deep-dive into the Russian-speaking pharma-spam economy of the late 2000s — the affiliate networks, the rivalries, and the people who ran them.
Beginner4/5Brian Krebs