describe Force and Bridges’s double corruption case as “lightning striking twice.” But looking again at the temptation of cryptocurrency as Gambaryan had come to see it—a black hole of seemingly consequence-free financial corruption—perhaps it’s no surprise that more than one agent had succumbed. The two men, like the Dread Pirate Roberts they were hunting, had been seduced by the same siren song: the false promise of untraceable money.
