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Barry Meier is a former, long-time investigative reporter with The New York Times, who was a member of the Times team that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He was the first journalist to shed a national spotlight on abuse of the powerful painkiller, OxyContin, and the secretive Sackler family which owned the drug's producer, Purdue Pharma. During his career, he also exposed the dangers of other drugs and medical devices. Along with Pain Killer, his books include Missing Man, which told the story of a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran, and Spooked, which investigated the corporate investigations industry.
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    • Pain Killer

    • An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic
    • Written by: Barry Meier
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-29
    • Language: English
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    • Missing Man

    • The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran
    • Written by: Barry Meier
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2016-05-04
    • Language: English
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    • Spooked

    • The Trump Dossier, Black Cube, and the Rise of Private Spies
    • Written by: Barry Meier
    • Narrated by: Kerry Shale
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-18
    • Language: English
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