You Can Run

YOU

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When their parents ripped two young sisters from their privileged lives, gave them fake names, and took them on the lam, they thought it was because their father was in trouble with the IRS. It would be years before they learned the truth about his life of crime.

By Barry Meier

The Atavist Magazine, No. 176

Barry Meier is an investigative reporter who worked for more than twenty-five years at the New York Times, where he specialized in coverage of business and public health. He was a member of the reporting team that received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, and is a recipient of two George Polk Awards. He is the author of the book Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic.

Editor: Seyward Darby

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