Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

Jeremy Scahill is an unembedded, international journalist. He has covered the war in Iraq; the downfall of Milosevic s government in Serbia; the role of the Chevron oil corporation in the massacre of protesting villagers in the Niger Delta; and the involvement of mercenaries in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. He was among the only western reporters to gain access to the Abu Ghraib prison when Saddam Hussein was in power. Scahill has won numerous journalism awards. Blackwater is his first book.