We Were Blackwater : Life, death and madness in the killing fields of Iraq - an SAS veteran's explosive true story Hardback

The aftermath of the 2003 Iraq invasion is a story that has yet to be told by those who fought their own war against a brutal insurgency: the private security contractors.

Risking life and limb, often side by side with the US military but far more exposed, they were never to receive a hero's homecoming.

They remained in the shadows, often with good cause, but that would change for ever on 31 March 2004, when a security convoy was ambushed in Fallujah and the charred bodies of two American operators were strung from a road bridge.

Those events would ensure notoriety for the company involved: Blackwater. This is the untold story of the security industry and its private war, recounted by a man who witnessed it first hand: SAS veteran and New Zealand national Barrie Rice.

His visceral, no-holds-barred account of his time with Blackwater is brought to life in scenes that lead to a reckoning with both the war and himself.

This gripping account delivers a compelling slice of reality - the inside story of the private contractor's war.