Life, death and madness in the killing fields of Iraq
An SAS veteran's explosive true story
Barrie `Baz' Rice
Remaining in the shadows, often with good cause, that would change for ever on 31 March 2004, when a security convoy was ambushed in Fallujah and the charred bodies of four American operators were strung from a road bridge. Those events would ensure notoriety for the company involved: Blackwater. This is the untold story of those events; of the security industry and their private war; and of Blackwater's war in Iraq - recounted by the man who was there to witness it all, SAS veteran Barrie Rice. His visceral, no-holds-barred account is brought to life in vivid, often shocking, scenes and laced with the dark humour of the moment. This gripping account delivers a compelling slice of reality - the inside story of the private contractor's war.
'A raw, riveting look into the hidden frontlines of the Iraq War and an indispensable first-person account of the secret lives of the mercenaries and contractors who fought and died overseas... Rice does something few have attempted, taking us on an emotional journey that is at once unsettling and revelatory. Excellent.' - Mark Boal, Oscar-winning screenwriter and producer of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty.
496 pages, 165 x 240mm, black & white, hardcover, Biteback Publishing, 2023
Product Code: 9781785908149
