Ebook: Big Boy Rules: In the Company of America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq

Preliminaries; Contents; Prologue: On the Border; 1 Social Studies, Inc.; 2 I Want to Kill Somebody Today; 3 The Last Train; 4 We Protect the Military; 5 The Stories You Tell; 6 Now You Are Going to Die; 7 Your Blood; 8 Scope of Authority: God; 9 Hostage Affairs; 10 BlackRwatey for Special Security; 11 Faith that Looks Through Death; Epilogue: The Book of Wisdom; Source Notes; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index.;From Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Steve Fainaru comes an unforgettable journey into Iraq's parallel war-a world filled with tens of thousands of armed men roaming Iraq with impunity, doing jobs the military can't or won't do. Fainaru reveals in gritty and shocking detail what drives these men to do the world's most dangerous work.