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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army [Revised and Updated]
by Jeremy Scahill
from Nation Books
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 
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Twice as long as it needs to be 
The pages are filled with more information than is needed. There are some interesting tidbits, but a lot of it is just biased or unnecesary. Its a struggle to stay interested in. Oh, and on page 97 the word 'Constructed' is spelled wrong. It is definately thoroughly researched, but aparently it includes evey word of that research, no revision to remove any excess fluff.
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Left-wing Hit Job 
This is not an objective look at Blackwater but a left-wing hit job on the private security company, Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush and the Iraq war. If your views line up with Dennis Kucinich then this might be for you.
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unreadable
I quit this book about 100 pages in. I found it to be unreadable. My problem with the book was not its politics. I read The Nation and am a liberal Democrat.
My problem was the editing, or lack thereof. The author writes in a confusing nonlinear way, with too many digressions and too much irrelevant detail. Very hard to track his narrative and to figure out where he is going. He uses long quotes from other people, rather than digesting their facts and giving attribution by endnote or footnote; he thus... more info
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War by Error 
It is hard to add usefully to the encomiums alrady heaped on this book, which details how a profit-seeking company, Blackwater, with the enthusiastic backing of the White House and Department of Defense and State Department,turned relatively innocuous administratve duties into a bloody crusade by untouchable privateers. Sad but true.
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