HIGHWAY TO HELL: Dispatches From A Mercenary In Iraq
by John Geddes
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Brand New
- ISBN 10
- 0767930258
- ISBN 13
- 9780767930253
- Seller
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About This Item
For the first time a private military contractor delivers a frontline report on life as a hired gun in Iraq. "Anyone entering Iraq must travel the road from Amman to Baghdad along the Fallujah bypass and around the Ramadi Ring Road. It's the most dangerous trunk route in the world, used as a personal fairground shooting gallery by insurgents and Islamists with rocket-propelled grenades and Kalashnikovs. For newcomers to the country it's terrifying but hell only really begins when that first journey ends." Amidst the ongoing controversy over the widespread employment of private military contractors in Iraq,Highway to Hell is a mercenary's graphic, first-person expose of life in "the second biggest army in Iraq
Synopsis
Based in London, John Geddes is a principal at Ronin Concepts, Ltd., a private security company. His military career spans more than two decades, including distinguished tours around the world with the Special Air Service.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Darleen Billy (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75406
- Title
- HIGHWAY TO HELL
- Author
- John Geddes
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Brand New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0767930258
- ISBN 13
- 9780767930253
- Publisher
- Broadway Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Pages
- 273 pages
- Keywords
- Highway To Hell - Dispatches From A Mercenary in iraq, John Geddes, Broadway Books, Military Fiction, War, Nonfiction