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100 1 $aFainaru, Steve.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00107935
245 10 $aBig boy rules :$bAmerica's mercenaries fighting in Iraq /$cSteve Fainaru.
260 $a[Cambridge, Mass.] :$bDa Capo Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axvii, 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, map ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235) and index.
520 1 $a"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter comes a harrowing journey into Iraq's parallel war. Part Mad Max, part Fight Club,it is a world filled with "private security contractors" - the U.S. government's sanitized name for tens of thousands of modern mercenaries, or mercs, who roam Iraq with impunity, doing jobs that the overstretched and understaffed military can't or won't do." "They are men like Jon Cote, a sensitive former U.S. army paratrooper and University of Florida fraternity brother who realizes too late that he made a terrible mistake coming back to Iraq. And Paul Reuben, a friendly security company medic who has no formal medical training and lacks basic supplies, like tourniquets. They are part of America's "other" army - some patriotic, some desperate, some just out for cash or adventure. And some who disappear into the void that is Iraq and are never seen again." "Washington Post reporter Steve Fainaru traveled with a group of private security contractors to find out what motivates them to put their lives in danger every day. He joined Jon Cote and the men of Crescent Security Group as they made their way through Iraq - armed to the teeth, dodging not only bombs and insurgents but also their own Iraqi colleagues."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMercenary troops$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMercenary troops$zIraq.
650 0 $aIraq War, 2003-2011.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003059
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