“A crackling exposé of the secretive military contractor Blackwater.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“[Scahill] is a one-man truth squad.”
—Bill Moyers

“[An] utterly gripping and explosive story.”
—Naomi Klein, The Guardian

“The biggest book of the year…an amazingly researched and well-told story.”
—Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive

“Scahill’s page-turning collection of intrigue and insight into the underworld of privatized warfare is well researched, thoroughly documented, and as a result extremely frightening.”
—The Globe and Mail

“Scahill provided me information…which I have not been able to get from the U.S. military…I have read more from Mr. Scahill, than I’ve got from our own government.”
—Representative Marcy Kaptur, Defense Appropriations Committee

“[T]his is no uninformed partisan screed…Meticulously documented and encyclopedic in scope…it’s a comprehensive and authoritative guide…this book serves as a provocative primer for advancing the debate.”
—Bill Sizemore, Pulitzer-prize nominated journalist, Virginian-Pilot

“At Blackwater USA, Jeremy Scahill’s is the face they love to hate…[He is] perhaps the private military company’s most dogged critic.”
—Virginian-Pilot

“Andy McNab couldn’t have invented this prescient tale of the private army of mercenaries run by a Christian conservative millionaire who, in turn, bankrolls the president.  A chilling exposé of the ultimate military outsource.”
—Christopher Fowler, The New Review’s“Best Books of 2007”

“Fascinating and magnificently documented…Jeremy Scahill’s new book is a brilliant exposé and belongs on the reading list of any conscientious citizen.”
—Scott Horton, International and Military Law Expert, Columbia University Law School

“Scahill is rightfully concerned about the moral and policy ramifications of such a powerful and unaccountable surrogate military, let alone the effect that its forces – who are paid six-figure salaries – have on the morale of normal soldiers.  But the sternest message of this book has to do with the dangers a mercenary army poses, and always has:  that it can always be turned on its host.”
—Star-Ledger

“[Scahill’s] book is so scary and so illuminating.”
—Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time”

“Jeremy Scahill’s account of the increasing governmental dependence on private contractors who make massive profit via death and destruction reads like a futuristic page-turner.  Only he is not writing about the future; he is writing about the present, and his research is encyclopedically documented.”
—Courier-Journal

“Jeremy Scahill’s exhaustive Blackwater appears with perfect timing…Dwight Eisenhower warned decades ago against the emergence of a military-industrial complex.  Scahill sees in the rise of Blackwater the fulfillment of that dark prophecy.”
—Weekend Australian

“Blackwater being rarely out of the news lately, this is a very useful survey of modern mercenaries – or, as they prefer to be called, ‘private security contractors’ in the ‘peace and stability industry’…Schaill is a sharp investigative writer.”
—The Guardian (London)

“It should be mandatory reading.  It’s very interesting – and scary.”
—Scarlett Johansson, actor

“Jeremy Scahill actually doesn’t know anything about Blackwater.”
—Martin Strong, vice president, Blackwater Worldwide