Levin Daniel
Levin Daniel - Proof Of Life Twenty Days On The Hunt For A Missing Person In The Middle East - Hardcover
Levin Daniel - Proof Of Life Twenty Days On The Hunt For A Missing Person In The Middle East - Hardcover
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Description: 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 miss ing person in Syria over twenty tense days. Levin a lawyer turned armed - conflict negotia tor 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 fasci nating 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.
Title: Proof Of Life Twenty Days On The Hunt For A Missing Person In The Middle East
Author(s): Levin Daniel
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Barcode: 9781643750989
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 5/18/2021
Category: Human Rights
Description: 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 miss ing person in Syria over twenty tense days. Levin a lawyer turned armed - conflict negotia tor 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 fasci nating 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.
Title: Proof Of Life Twenty Days On The Hunt For A Missing Person In The Middle East
Author(s): Levin Daniel
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Barcode: 9781643750989
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 5/18/2021
Category: Human Rights
