Typical is a scene in which we see the young Mr. Zuckerberg, determined to swipe the ­member pages of a Harvard student house, sneak into the building intending to plug into its local network. But then he has to hide with his laptop behind a piece of furniture as an amorous couple begins cavorting nearby. “We almost hear the James Bond theme ­running through the kid’s head,” Mr. Mezrich writes, in what reads like an aside to a screenwriter.

- Paul Boutin, on the new barely-reported Facebook expose, The Accidental Billionaires, for the Wall Street Journal