num_pages: 240
description: Executive Outcomes was the title of the most successful private army of modern times. In Angola Sierra Leone and Papua New Guinea it stepped in while the UN revealed itself as little more than a debating society. But the motives of this mercenary army are open to was it more interested in protecting Sierra Leone's diamond mines than the people caught up in a savage guerrilla war? Journalist Jim Hooper followed Executive Outcomes on operations all over Africa. Here he reveals the story of a mercenary army in action.
language: English
title: Bloodsong!: An Account of Executive Outcomes in Angola
publisher: Harper Uk