Blackwater

The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

By: Jeremy Scahill

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

The “crackling exposé” (New York Times Book Review) of the shadowy mercenary army that perpetrated horrific war crimes in America's name

On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square, leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces, subcontractors working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide, led by Erik Prince.

Award-winning journalist Jeremy Scahill takes us from the bloodied streets of Iraq to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to the chambers of power in Washington, to reveal the frightening new face of the U.S. military machine, and what happens when you outsource war.

How violent and dangerous Blackwater can be.

Blackwater is as religious as it is dangerous. The privatization of the military is exceedingly dangerous and should be done away with.

Informative

Author was great at providing information of Blackwater.
Reader was too monotone to keep my attention and reason for four stars. Hoping to get some energy at the end of the book but, never happened.

Terrible bias

This book is awful. It starts with the author’s overtly anti-Catholic and anti-Christian bias, which he uses to attempt to slander Prince’s father. I had to stop listening when he attempted to make fun of the contractors for rolling up their sleeves and having short haircuts (in a desert environment nonetheless), which he said made them look like “caricatures.” Scahill’s bias in this work makes it unlistenable. It further nullified any chance he had of convincing me of his points. At times the story veered aggressively off course just so he could discuss something he found particularly critique-worthy, even if it had nothing to do with Blackwater. The whole book is laughably biased and not worth your time.

Very one sided book

Pretty much just an entire book. Downing black water. A lot of false info. That takes ten seconds to google the actual facts

Too political

This is propaganda for those of us that do not get insane on either side. We want real books in real stories not bullshit.