Ebook: Mercenary mum: my journey from young mother to Baghdad bodyguard

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Prologue; Mercenary Mum; Epilogue; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Back Cover.;Mercenary Mum is the true story of Neryl Joyce, a young single mother who went from working at her local Woolworths to serving as a soldier in the Australian Army's elite Close Personal Protection Unit. She later left the army to become a high-risk security contractor, where she was responsible for protecting high-threat targets from assassination and opportune attack in Iraq. Vividly and powerfully, Joyce takes us on a journey through the battlefields of Iraq. She suffers the loss of close friends on the infamous Route Irish. She reveals what it's like to be a woman in a brutal man's world, an.