mission in Benghazi last September has been a fuller sense of the man at the center of the story. Lost in the debate and warring conspiracy theories about the attack that took the life of Stevens and three others at the U.S. Need to pull above the fray."īut then, at the end of a day beset by anxieties, Stevens wrote a hopeful note: "Benghazi and friends tomorrow - something to look forward to." "The usual bundle of worries - family, bachelorhood, embassy and work-related issues.… Too many things going on, everyone wants to bend my ear. "I’m only 8 years away from 60 - I need to avoid such an ending!" "He’s divorced, lives alone with his dog, and slowly descends into Alzheimer’s," Stevens wrote in his journal on Sept. Stevens was unnerved by the downward spiral of the 60-year-old investigator, who dives headlong into his work to distract him from the blank walls of his life closing in around him. ambassador to Libya had just finished reading The Troubled Man, the 10th and final novel in Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell’s series about a sullen police detective named Kurt Wallander. The day before he returned to Benghazi after a nine-month absence, Chris Stevens was brooding.
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