A review by millie_rose_reads
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill

4.0

Fascinating journalistic investigation of the Blackwater group, a mercenary army contracted by governments (the United States specifically in this book) to meddle in international affairs too politically toxic to engage in more official capacities. Reading about the impunity such black-budgeted PMC's operate under is horrific and plainly criminal, and how ineptly the world stage adjudicates their activities with such cynical realpolitik is dispiriting to say the least. However, that doesn't stop Scahill's account from being an engaging excision of its great injustices.