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"""[Scahill's] book is so scary and so illuminating."" -- ""Bill Maher, host of HBO's Real Time"" ""A crackling exposé."" -- ""New York Times Book Review"" ""Blackwater being rarely out of the news lately, this is a very useful survey of modern mercenaries--or, as they prefer to be called, 'private security contractors' in the 'peace and stability industry'...Scahill is a sharp investigative writer."" -- ""Guardian (London)"" ""It should be mandatory reading. It's very interesting--and scary."" -- ""Scarlett Johansson, actor"" ""Jeremy Scahill's Blackwater would be a masterpiece of the genre of futuristic sci fi were it not so regrettably real...[A] horrifying but necessary read."" -- ""Daily Kos"" ""Of all the insane Bush privatization efforts, none is more frightening than the corporatizing of military combat forces. Jeremy Scahill admirably exposes a devastating example of this sinister scheme."" -- ""Michael Moore"" ""Should our nation enter a period of instability following another terrorist attack on American soil, an economic collapse, or a series of environmental disasters, the tyranny that groups such as Blackwater impose on others could become the tyranny they impose on us. The rise of this unchecked mercenary force, as Jeremy Scahill understands, could presage the final stage in the collapse of American democracy."" -- ""Chris Hedges, former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief"" ""The dark, largely unknown story of Blackwater...is chillingly told in Jeremy Scahill's exposé...Tom Weiner has precise diction and a rumbling, authoritative delivery."" -- ""AudioFile"" ""This engrossing investigative piece exposing, in shocking detail, a US-government-outsourced Frankenstein replete with helicopter gunships may leave you incredulous. But you better believe it, for it poses a grave and gathering danger to the future of our Republic."" -- ""Ray McGovern, CIA veteran and former intelligence briefer to George H. W. Bush"""

[Scahill's] book is so scary and so illuminating. -- Bill Maher, host of HBO's Real Time Of all the insane Bush privatization efforts, none is more frightening than the corporatizing of military combat forces. Jeremy Scahill admirably exposes a devastating example of this sinister scheme. -- Michael Moore It should be mandatory reading. It's very interesting--and scary. -- Scarlett Johansson, actor A crackling expos . -- New York Times Book Review Blackwater being rarely out of the news lately, this is a very useful survey of modern mercenaries--or, as they prefer to be called, 'private security contractors' in the 'peace and stability industry'...Scahill is a sharp investigative writer. -- Guardian (London) Should our nation enter a period of instability following another terrorist attack on American soil, an economic collapse, or a series of environmental disasters, the tyranny that groups such as Blackwater impose on others could become the tyranny they impose on us. The rise of this unchecked mercenary force, as Jeremy Scahill understands, could presage the final stage in the collapse of American democracy. -- Chris Hedges, former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief This engrossing investigative piece exposing, in shocking detail, a US-government-outsourced Frankenstein replete with helicopter gunships may leave you incredulous. But you better believe it, for it poses a grave and gathering danger to the future of our Republic. -- Ray McGovern, CIA veteran and former intelligence briefer to George H. W. Bush The dark, largely unknown story of Blackwater...is chillingly told in Jeremy Scahill's expos ...Tom Weiner has precise diction and a rumbling, authoritative delivery. -- AudioFile Jeremy Scahill's Blackwater would be a masterpiece of the genre of futuristic sci fi were it not so regrettably real...[A] horrifying but necessary read. -- Daily Kos

Jeremy Scahill's Blackwater would be a masterpiece of the genre of futuristic sci fi were it not so regrettably real...[A] horrifying but necessary read. -- Daily Kos The dark, largely unknown story of Blackwater...is chillingly told in Jeremy Scahill's expos ...Tom Weiner has precise diction and a rumbling, authoritative delivery. -- AudioFile This engrossing investigative piece exposing, in shocking detail, a US-government-outsourced Frankenstein replete with helicopter gunships may leave you incredulous. But you better believe it, for it poses a grave and gathering danger to the future of our Republic. -- Ray McGovern, CIA veteran and former intelligence briefer to George H. W. Bush Should our nation enter a period of instability following another terrorist attack on American soil, an economic collapse, or a series of environmental disasters, the tyranny that groups such as Blackwater impose on others could become the tyranny they impose on us. The rise of this unchecked mercenary force, as Jeremy Scahill understands, could presage the final stage in the collapse of American democracy. -- Chris Hedges, former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief Blackwater being rarely out of the news lately, this is a very useful survey of modern mercenaries--or, as they prefer to be called, 'private security contractors' in the 'peace and stability industry'...Scahill is a sharp investigative writer. -- Guardian (London) A crackling expos . -- New York Times Book Review It should be mandatory reading. It's very interesting--and scary. -- Scarlett Johansson, actor Of all the insane Bush privatization efforts, none is more frightening than the corporatizing of military combat forces. Jeremy Scahill admirably exposes a devastating example of this sinister scheme. -- Michael Moore [Scahill's] book is so scary and so illuminating. -- Bill Maher, host of HBO's Real Time

"""[Scahill's] book is so scary and so illuminating."" -- ""Bill Maher, host of HBO's Real Time"" ""A crackling expos�."" -- ""New York Times Book Review"" ""Blackwater being rarely out of the news lately, this is a very useful survey of modern mercenaries--or, as they prefer to be called, 'private security contractors' in the 'peace and stability industry'...Scahill is a sharp investigative writer."" -- ""Guardian (London)"" ""It should be mandatory reading. It's very interesting--and scary."" -- ""Scarlett Johansson, actor"" ""Jeremy Scahill's Blackwater would be a masterpiece of the genre of futuristic sci fi were it not so regrettably real...[A] horrifying but necessary read."" -- ""Daily Kos"" ""Of all the insane Bush privatization efforts, none is more frightening than the corporatizing of military combat forces. Jeremy Scahill admirably exposes a devastating example of this sinister scheme."" -- ""Michael Moore"" ""Should our nation enter a period of instability following another terrorist attack on American soil, an economic collapse, or a series of environmental disasters, the tyranny that groups such as Blackwater impose on others could become the tyranny they impose on us. The rise of this unchecked mercenary force, as Jeremy Scahill understands, could presage the final stage in the collapse of American democracy."" -- ""Chris Hedges, former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief"" ""The dark, largely unknown story of Blackwater...is chillingly told in Jeremy Scahill's expos�...Tom Weiner has precise diction and a rumbling, authoritative delivery."" -- ""AudioFile"" ""This engrossing investigative piece exposing, in shocking detail, a US-government-outsourced Frankenstein replete with helicopter gunships may leave you incredulous. But you better believe it, for it poses a grave and gathering danger to the future of our Republic."" -- ""Ray McGovern, CIA veteran and former intelligence briefer to George H. W. Bush"""

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Jeremy Scahill is a frequent contributor to the Nation and a correspondent for the national radio and television program Democracy Now!, as well as a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at the Nation Institute. A two-time winner of the prestigious George Polk Award, he has reported extensively from Iraq, and his exposure of the presence of Blackwater forces in New Orleans in the wake of Katrina sparked a Congressional inquiry and an internal Department of Homeland Security investigation. He lives in Brooklyn. Tom Weiner, a dialogue director and voice artist best known for his roles in video games and television shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Transformers, is the winner of eight Earphones Awards and Audie Award finalist. He is a former member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

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