Proof of life : twenty days on the hunt for a missing person in the Middle East / Daniel Levin.
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TextPublisher: Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 265 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781643750989
- 1643750984
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Riveting . . . Well-written and highly compelling. "-- Wall Street Journal
"Truly thrilling. Daniel Levin brilliantly conveys both the menace and the evil of Middle Eastern intrigue, and some victories of human kindness over cruelty and despair."--Daniel Kahneman, New York Times bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Levin was in his New York office when he got a call from an acquaintance with an urgent, cryptic request to meet in Paris. A young man had gone missing in Syria. No government, embassy, or intelligence agency would help. Could he? Would he? So begins a suspenseful, shocking, and at times brutal true story of one man's search to find a missing person in Syria over twenty tense days. Levin, a lawyer turned armed-conflict negotiator, chases leads throughout the Middle East, meeting with powerful sheikhs, drug lords, and sex traffickers in his pursuit of the truth.
In Proof of Life , Levin dives deep into the shadows--an underground industry of war where everything is for sale, including arms, drugs, and even people. He offers a fascinating study of how people use leverage to get what they want from one another and of a place where no one does a favor without wanting something in return, whether it's immediately or years down the road.
A fast-paced thriller wrapped in a memoir, Proof of Life is a cinematic must-read by an author with access to a world that usually remains hidden.
"An account by an armed-conflict mediator searching for a missing person in Syria over twenty tense days-at the end of which he will either find "proof of life" or not"-- Provided by publisher.