Chris Voss Podcast – Proof of Life: Twenty Days on the Hunt for a Missing Person in the Middle East by Daniel Levin
Summary: <a href="https://thechrisvossshow.com/the-chris-voss-show-podcast-proof-of-life-twenty-days-on-the-hunt-for-a-missing-person-in-the-middle-east-by-daniel-levin/levin_proofoflife_hc_hr/" rel="attachment wp-att-33551"></a><br><br> Proof of Life: Twenty Days on the Hunt for a Missing Person in the Middle East by Daniel Levin<br><br> <br><br> <br><br> <br><br> <br><br> <br><br> <br><br> <br><br> “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.”<br><br> —Daniel Kahneman, New York Times bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow <br><br> <br><br> “In laying bare the raw human toll of the ferocious and cruel Syrian conflict, Proof of Life asks the reader to make a choice between cynicism and compassion.”<br><br> —Ayaan Hirsi Ali, New York Times bestselling author of Infidel<br><br> <br><br> 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.<br><br> <br><br> 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.<br><br> <br><br> 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.
