Missing Man, Barry Meier
Missing Man, Barry Meier
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Missing Man
The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran

Author: Barry Meier

Narrator: Ray Porter

Unabridged: 8 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/03/2016


Synopsis

In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantánamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help from the United States.

Barry Meier, an award-winning investigative reporter for the New York Times, draws on years of interviews and never-before-disclosed CIA files to weave together a riveting narrative of the ex-agent's journey to Iran and the hunt to rescue him. The result is an extraordinary tale about the shadowlands between crime, business, espionage, and the law, where secrets are currency and betrayal is commonplace. Its colorful cast includes CIA operatives, Russian oligarchs, arms dealers, White House officials, gangsters, private eyes, FBI agents, journalists, and a fugitive American terrorist and assassin.
 

About Barry Meier

Barry Meier is a former New York Times reporter and a member of the Times’ team that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He is also a two-time winner of the prestigious George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting and other professional honors. Prior to joining the Times in 1989, he worked for the Wall Street Journal and New York Newsday. He is also the author of Pain Killer and Missing Man. Meier lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Philip

For anyone who watched the excellent TV miniseries of John le Carré’s The Night Manager, this story may sound familiar. An untrained “consultant” works for a female spymaster on a rogue assignment outside of the regular HQS chain of command, to go after a shadowy but powerful bad guy. But this is th......more

Goodreads review by Anne

It took me a while to finish this book. Not at all because it was boring, but because of the amount of names and information it holds. Many times, you have to read a page several times and go back to check who is who. Bob Levinson was an FBI agent for 30 years and decided to retire, get his pension a......more

Goodreads review by Joshua

This book was okay and fairly interesting. It didn't feel like it flowed that well much like my review. It also ended rather abruptly, sort of like......more