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Dark Wire by Joseph Cox is a work of investigative nonfiction about Operation Trojan Shield, also known in Australia as Operation Ironside, the multinational law enforcement sting built around the encrypted messaging platform Anom. The book explains how the FBI, with partners including Australian and European authorities, turned a criminal demand for secure phones into a surveillance channel that exposed drug trafficking, money laundering, weapons dealing, and planned violence. Cox situates Anom within the broader history of encrypted phone services used by organized crime, including earlier platforms such as Phantom Secure, EncroChat, and Sky ECC. The result is both a true crime narrative and a technology reporting project, focused on how encryption, trust, informants, jurisdiction, and institutional ambition intersected. Its purpose is not only to recount arrests and seizures, but also to examine the privacy and legal questions raised when authorities secretly run the communications infrastructure they are investigating.