Postrevolutionary

Jeremy Scahills Blackwater book (hardcover) provides a distressing expos of the secretive company Blackwater Worldwide. The international bestseller and winner of the George Polk book award offers an in-depth look at the rise of the worlds most powerful mercenary army. Blackwater is a compelling Iraq war book that provides food for thought. The Blackwater book revisits the events of September 16, 2007, when 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. As the Iraq war book Blackwater reveals, the shooters were private forces working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide.This is the explosive story of a company that rose a decade ago from Moyock, North Carolina, to become one of the most powerful players in the “War on Terror.” In the war book Blackwater, his gripping bestseller, 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 expose Blackwater as the frightening new face of the U.S. war machine. Buy the Blackwater book to find out more about Blackwater Worldwide and how the company’s sinister operations are influencing the “War on Terror.”