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How does a former soldier join the ‘Circuit’,
a world of professional bodyguards and soldiers for hire who guard VIP celebrities,
Middle Eastern royalty or diamond mines in Angola with equal aplomb?
How and why have tens of thousands of men on the Circuit moved to work in the heavily armed PSD teams in Iraq?
In the tradition of Andy McNab's "Bravo Two Zero" comes an explosive insider's account of life as a private security contractor in Baghdad.
In September 2003 James Ashcroft landed in Iraq as a 'gun for hire'. It was the beginning of an 18-month journey into chaos.
In "Making a Killing",
Ashcroft provides a first-hand view of the secret world of private security where ex-soldiers employed to protect US and British interests can make up to $1000 a day.
In this action-packed page-turner, he reveals the dangers of his adrenalin-fuelled life as a private security contractor in Baghdad,
inside the West’s secret army – told from the front line in a war that is slowly being privatised,
where ex-soldiers earning up to $1,000 a day outnumber the total number of non-US Coalition Forces.
Through harrowing blow-by-blow accounts of long days under blistering mortar bombardment,
IED ambushes on the streets and murderous gun fights,
Ashcroft describes a volatile war where the rules are still being written.
This is a battle where escorting a journalist from the airport can quickly turn into a close-range gunfight;
where every insurgent killed only recruits a dozen more; where soldiers, private contractors and Iraqis are dying every day,
and Coalition Forces are struggling to defend their own bases, left alone bring order.
Operating from deep within the Iraqi community – not protected Coalition bases – Ashcroft gained a unique insight into the Iraq war from the sharp end of the insurgency.
In this gripping and illuminating eye-witness account he tells the real,
unsanitised story of the war in Iraq and its aftermath.
Having worked with Coalition and Iraqi security forces and high ranking officials,
and having lived with Christian, Kurd and both Sunni and Shia Iraqis,
James Ashcroft’s accounts reveal a unique perspective on the conflict – the real stories behind current events and the action that were never reported on in the news .
This book is absolutely essential reading for anyone travelling to Iraq either as a soldier or contractor,
for security professionals around the world,
for military historians and for anyone who is considering the security industry as a career.
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