by Barry Meier
Tymoshenko, Yulia
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.)
United Company RUSAL
United Nations (U.N.): Ahmadinejad’s speech at; Iran and; Iran’s mission to
Vega, Baruch
Vega, Olga
Venezuela
Venjik, Leonid
Vesco, Robert
Voice of America
Volkov, Alexander
Wall Street Journal, The
Walt Disney World Resort
Washington Post, The
Watergate break-in
weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
Wickham, Ben
Williams, Brian
Winer, Jonathan
Winfield, Nigel
World Economic Forum
World Trade Center; 9/11 attack on; 1993 bombing of
Yeltsin, Boris
Yukos Oil
Zadeh, Farshid Ali
Zayat, Fouad al-
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A Note About the Author
Barry Meier, a reporter for The New York Times, has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award. He is the author of Pain Killer: A “Wonder” Drug’s Trail of Addiction and Death and A World of Hurt: Fixing Pain Medicine’s Biggest Mistake. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Prologue
1. The House on Ninety-Second Street
2. Toots
3. The Fugitive
4. Boris
5. A Gold Mine
6. Christmas
7. The Black Dahlia
8. An Appointment on Kish
9. The Missing Man
10. One of Their Own
11. The Merchant of Death
12. Passwords
13. The Nuclear Option
14. “Heloo Cheristi”
15. The Hikers
16. The Young Man
17. Proof of Life
18. Tradecraft
19. Breaking News
20. The Fellowship
21. The Twilight War
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Also by Barry Meier
A Note About the Author
Copyright
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Copyright © 2016 by Barry Meier
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First edition, 2016
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Meier, Barry.
Title: Missing man: the American spy who vanished in Iran / Barry Meier.
Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015037598 | ISBN 9780374210458 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780374712792 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Levinson, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1948– | Spies—United States—Biography. | Missing persons—Iran—Biography. | Hostages—Iran—Biography. | United States. Central Intelligence Agency—Officials and employees—Biography. | Rescues—Iran—History— 21st century. | United States—Foreign relations—Iran. | Iran—Foreign relations— United States. | United States—Foreign relations—1989– | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence. | TRUE CRIME / Espionage.
Classification: LCC E901.1.L48 M45 2016 | DDC 327.12092—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015037598
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