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The Sex.Com Chronicles captures the dizzying atmosphere of exploding wealth and mad ambition that fueled the growth of the early Internet in its Wild-West phase. Written by the trial lawyer who won the historic case to recover the world’s most valuable Internet domain name, Charles Carreon’s crisp narrative begins from the personal perspective of a lone trial lawyer challenged to take on the case of a lifetime, introduces the larger-than-life characters who will drive the action, then accelerates through a series of gripping chapters that hold the reader in thrall until the last page is turned. Fast, funny, and reckless, Carreon artfully depicts a running gun-battle on the information highway and delivers an unforgettable climax that will leave the reader reeling.
What Readers Are Saying
This is an intriguing story that takes you down the rabbit hole of legal machinations. Besides being a tale characterized as a “wilderness of mirrors” involving an array of colorful characters; it is a well written account of how an extraordinary battle shaped the history and development of the internet for commercial use. While there are plenty of circumstances entailing evil deception and the exciting lure of money here, there are also moments of self discovery. Charles Carreon has written an important book for future law students and anyone interested in a modern day adventure. I highly recommend this book.–Rogelio Lopez, Amazon Reviewer, 5 StarsA scintillating true story combining sex, money, evil, and high powered legal maneuvering written with the clarity of Hemingway and the sly wit of Tom Wolfe.It also includes the only lucid explanation of bad faith law, that I have ever read. Bad Faith is virtually the only remaining sanction that keeps, mega insurance companies like State Farm from screwing its naive policy holders (Good Neighbors) whenever they file a claim.– John Gordon, Amazon Reviewer, 5 Stars
About The Author
Charles Carreon was born in Phoenix, Arizona during the Cold War. The legend of Billy the Kid and B. Traven’s novel, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” featured prominently in the formation of his psyche. In his freshman year at Arizona State University, he met his sweetheart Tara, and a year later they married and began traveling. They spent the better part of a year traveling through Europe, the Middle East and India, then moved up to Ashland, Oregon, had three kids, Joshua, Maria, and Ana, and lived in the woods for six years. Poverty worked its magic, and in 1983, they all moved to Los Angeles, where Charles got a law degree at UCLA and spent six years in the fast-paced world of LA law. In 1993 he did another about face and moved back to Oregon where he became a small-town prosecutor, then flipped again and became a criminal defense lawyer. In 1999, he met Gary Kremen, the founder of Match.com and original owner of the Sex.Com domain, and morphed into one of the more colorful intellectual property lawyers of the early Internet era. He now lives in Tucson, Arizona with Tara.
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