Spinoff Review of Books literary editor Steve Braunias writes: Andrew O’Hagan! Novelist, essayist, very smart person who wears a suit and tie even when he’s writing at home – every inch an aesthete, all that, but he’s also an awesome reporter and his latest get in the London Review of Books concerns a fugitive from justice who made an exciting getaway to New Zealand.
O’Hagan’s epic story – 34,317 words – is about the real or fraudulent identity of“Satoshi Nakamoto”, inventor of the so-called bitcoin. “Journalists had spent years looking for Nakamoto. His identity was one of the great mysteries of the internet, and a holy grail of investigative reporting,” writes O’Hagan. But he was given his name on a plate – Craig Wright. The great mystery had been solved, and O’Hagan was granted exclusive access to Wright, and to Wright’s story.
http://thespinoff.co.nz/books/20-06-2016/the-monday-excerpt-andrew-ohagan-on-the-fugitive-of-justice-who-escaped-to-auckland-and-went-shopping-at-billabong/
