Making a Killing: The Explosive Story of a Hired Gun in Iraq
James Ashcroft, "Making a Killing: The Explosive Story of a Hired Gun in Iraq"
ISBN: 1852273119, 0753512343 | 2010 | EPUB | 242 pages | 1 MB
In September 2003, James 'Ash' Ashcroft, a former British Infantry Captain, arrived in Iraq as a 'gun for hire'. It was the beginning of an 18-month journey into blood and chaos.
In this action-packed page-turner, Ashcroft reveals the dangers of his adrenalin-fuelled life as a security contractor in Baghdad, where private soldiers outnumber non-US Coalition forces in a war that is slowly being privatised. From blow-by-blow accounts of days under mortar bombardment to revelations about life operating deep within the Iraqi community, Ashcroft shares the real, unsanitised story of the war in Iraq — and its aftermath — direct from the front line.