Missing Man (38 page)

Switzerland

Syria

Tabatabai, Ali Akbar

Tajikistan

Taliban

Talibani Kurds

TD International

Tehran; Christine Levinson in; Evin Prison in; Iranian-Americans detained in; political demonstrations in; Silverman's trip to; U.S. embassy in

Tess, Carolyn

Three Days of the Condor

Time

Times Square mall

Titus, Troy

Treasury Department

Trento, Joseph

Turkey

Turkmenistan

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-

 

ALSO BY
BARRY MEIER

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A Note About the Author

Barry Meier
, a reporter for
The New York Times
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Pain Killer: A “Wonder” Drug's Trail of Addiction and Death
and
A World of Hurt: Fixing Pain Medicine's Biggest Mistake
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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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