Husband. Father. Prisoner.

Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. David Barnes just wanted to see his kids. When his plane landed in Moscow, it had been nearly three years since he last heard from his two sons. Luke would now be eleven. Daniel would be seven.* They had been living in a strange country, speaking a strange language, cut off from everyone they knew back home in Texas. Were they making friends? Were they fitting in at their new schools? There was so much that Barnes didn’t know, but he was sure of one thing: His children needed their father.In 2019, Barnes’s ex-wife, a Russian-born accountant named Svetlana Boricovna, had abducted Luke and Daniel from…

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