Reddit reviews Malware Analyst's Cookbook: Tools and Techniques for Fighting Malicious Code
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The Rootkit Arsenal
This book is excellent for understanding windows internals from a malware perspective. See if you can find a digital version of the 1st edition as the new release doesn't look like its out yet http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/9781449626365/
Bill Blunden covers so much information in this book its amazing. Check out his webpage also http://www.belowgotham.com/Pubs.htm
The Malware Analyst's Cookbook you currently own is probably the best book on breaking down and understanding malware. Blundens RootKit Arsenal book is probably the best book for creating malware/rootkits. Those two books will give you all the information you need for starting.
I can't speak on creating a dirty network. But Advanced Malware Analysis or The Malware Analysts Cookbook