

Blackwater
The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Author: Jeremy Scahill
Narrator: Tom Weiner
Unabridged: 14 hr 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Published: 03/25/2025
Synopsis
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.