{"product_id":"proof-of-life","title":"Proof of Life","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Riveting . . . Well-written and highly compelling.\u003c\/b\u003e\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e​“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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThinking, Fast and Slow \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eProof of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A fast-paced thriller wrapped in a memoir, \u003ci\u003eProof of Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a cinematic must-read by an author with access to a world that usually remains hidden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57613181878645,"sku":"9781643750989","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781643750989.jpg?v=1790607851","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/proof-of-life","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}