"EncroChat: Inside Britain’s Hidden Criminal Network"
The true story of the greatest digital manhunt in UK law enforcement history.

For years, Europes most dangerous criminals operated in the shadows, hidden behind an impenetrable veil of encryption. Murderers, cartel lords, gun traffickers, and drug barons spoke freely on EncroChat, an ultra-secure communications platform they believed was untraceable.

Police couldn’t hack it, Intelligence services couldn’t crack it, and on the darknet, it was gospel: Encro was God mode.

Until one day, when it wasn’t.

This gripping true crime thriller takes you inside the top-secret European cyber operation that changed everything. In 2020, a handful of elite hackers working with French and Dutch authorities discovered a back door into the encrypted world. What followed was a global sting unlike anything seen before. With every message intercepted and every user silently unmasked, authorities began mapping out a parallel society—one where murder was ordered by text, and kilos of cocaine were dispatched like parcels.

As the UK’s National Crime Agency prepared for the takedown, pressure mounted. Could they act before the criminals caught on? Would a single error alert the network? Or worse, trigger bloodshed?

With unprecedented access, this book reveals how police read over 115 million messages, conducted over 1,500 arrests, and dismantled dozens of major crime syndicates, all without the underworld suspecting a thing.

Told through detailed investigation, fictionalised dialogue, and chilling real-world events, "EncroChat: Inside Britain’s Hidden Criminal Network" peels back the curtain on a surveillance operation that rewrote the rules of modern policing.

Encrypted.