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Steve Fainaru's "Big Boy Rules"; WINNER 2008 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Hardback. 254 pages.

From inside cover...
"There are tens of thousands of them in Iraq. They work for companies with exotic and ominous-sounding names, like Crescent Security Group, Triple Canopy, and Blackwater Worldwide. They travel in convoys of multicolored pickups fortified with make-shift armor, belt-fed machine guns, frag grenades, and even shoulder-fired missiles. They protect everything from U.S. ambassador and American generals to shipments of Frappuccino bound for Baghdad's Green Zone. They kill Iraqis, and Iraqis kill them.
And the only law the recognize is Big Boy Rules.
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter comes a harrowing journey into Iraq's parallel war. Part "Mad Max", part "Fight Club", it is a world filled with "private security contractors"--the U.S. government's sanitized name for tens of thousands of modern mercenaries, or mercs, who roam Iraq with impunity, doing jobs that the overstretched and understaffed military can't or won't do.
They are men likeJon Cote, a sensitive former U.S. army paratrooper and University of Florida fraternity brother who realizes too late that he made a terrible mistake coming back to Iraq. And Paul Reuben, a friendly security company medic who has no formal medical training and lacks basic supplies, like tourniquets. They are part of America's "other" army--some patriotic, some desperate, some just out for cash or adventure. And some who disappear into the void that is Iraq and are never seen again..."

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