{"product_id":"the-laptop-farm-miles-donovan-9798235878563","title":"The Laptop Farm: The True Story of an American Housewife, a Secret Chinese Border City, and the Scheme That Armed North Korea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE LAPTOP FARM\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe True Story of an American Housewife, a Secret Chinese Border City, and the Scheme That Armed North Korea\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe Walked Her Dog. She Had 100,000 TikTok Followers. She Was Funding Kim Jong Un's Nuclear Program.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a quiet suburb outside Phoenix, an FBI raid uncovered ninety corporate laptops on metal racks, sticky notes identifying which Fortune 500 company each had been issued by, and a hand-written ledger of stolen American identities. In a back bedroom, dozens of running machines hummed in the Arizona afternoon - each logged into a different American payroll system, each paying a salary that ended up six thousand miles away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe woman running the operation was caring for her dying mother. She was filing I-9 forms for North Korean spies. She was forging signatures, copying badges, and shipping laptops to a Chinese border city most Americans cannot find on a map. This is how she got there - and why hundreds of American corporations still don't know it happened to them, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER INSIDE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe LinkedIn Message That Started It All - A single unsolicited message in March 2020 opened a door the regime in Pyongyang had been engineering for a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e$17.1 Million in Three Years - How a small suburban house generated a fortune for the Munitions Industry Department of the Workers' Party of Korea - the bureau that builds the missiles aimed at American cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside the Dandong Dormitories - Ten workers per two-bedroom unit. Portraits of three Kim leaders on the walls. $5,000 monthly quotas raised to $8,000 during COVID. Defectors describe the system in their own words.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 309 Companies She Touched - A top-five television network. A Silicon Valley tech giant. An aerospace contractor. A car manufacturer. A luxury retailer. The federal indictment named none of them publicly. Any could be your employer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 68 Stolen Americans - Real people whose Social Security numbers were sold on a Ukrainian website and used to fool corporate hiring systems. Their administrative recovery work continues to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Missiles Launched While She Worked - The Hwasong-17. The Hwasong-18. Hypersonic glide vehicles. The parallel timeline requires no dramatization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Federal Investigation That Unraveled It - From a TikTok video showing laptops in the background to a 102-month federal sentence, the case the FBI calls the largest action of its kind ever charged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE FIRST DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S QUIETEST NATIONAL-SECURITY CRISIS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on federal indictments, sentencing transcripts, defector testimony, threat-intelligence reporting from Mandiant and CrowdStrike, and Treasury sanctions designations, The Laptop Farm reconstructs what the FBI calls a \"new high-tech campaign to evade U.S. sanctions\" - and the woman whose Arizona house became its operational center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNarrative nonfiction in the tradition of Patrick Radden Keefe's Empire of Pain, John Carreyrou's Bad Blood, and David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon - meticulously sourced, cinematically paced, unflinching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT FEDERAL OFFICIALS ARE SAYING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The call is coming from inside the house.\" - U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"There are very few major companies in the US that haven't been touched. It's an epidemic.\" - John Hultquist, Google Threat Intelligence Group\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"If you host laptop farms for North Korean actors, law enforcement will be waiting for you.\" - FBI Assistant Director Brett Leatherman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe federal campaign continues. The houses continue. The next knock will come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen this book and discover the suburban front in a war America didn't know it was fighting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miles Donovan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235878563\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vector Zero Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.83d","brand":"Miles Donovan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801449345279,"sku":"9798235878563","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-laptop-farm-miles-donovan-9798235878563","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}