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Mercenary Mum

My Journey from Young Mother to Baghdad Bodyguard

By: Neryl Joyce

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Mercenary Mum

My Journey from Young Mother to Baghdad Bodyguard

By: Neryl Joyce

Mercenary Mum is the true story of Neryl Joyce, a young single mother who went from working at her local Woolworths to serving as a soldier in the Australian Army's elite Close Personal Protection Unit. She later left the army to become a high - risk security contractor, where she was responsible for protecting high - threat targets from assassination and opportune attack in Iraq. Vividly and powerfully, Joyce takes us on a journey through the battlefields of Iraq. She suffers the loss of close friends on the infamous Route Irish. She reveals what it's like to be a woman in a brutal man's world, and a victim of sexual abuse. And she tells how she survived all this to return home to her son. Mercenary Mum is the unforgettable and inspiring story of one woman's fight for her career, for her family and for life itself.

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350

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ReadHowYouWant

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1525222759

ISBN 13

9781525222757

Mercenary Mum

My Journey from Young Mother to Baghdad Bodyguard

By: Neryl Joyce

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Mercenary Mum

My Journey from Young Mother to Baghdad Bodyguard

By: Neryl Joyce

How does a supermarket cashier and single Mum become a fearless Baghdad bodyguard in the battlefields of Iraq? This is the true story of Neryl Joyce, a young Australian woman, struggling to pay the bills, who signed up to be a soldier. After a stint with the Australian Army’s elite Close Personal Protection Unit, Neryl joined a private security firm inside Baghdad’s heavily guarded Green Zone. Here, she defended high-risk foreign targets from opportunistic assassination inside Iraq. As a female bodyguard in the Middle East, Neryl had to be as good as—or even better than—any of her fellow soldiers. With courage and heart, she navigated sexual discrimination and abuse, operations on the world’s most dangerous road, and the unrelenting brutality of a man’s world. But the longer she stayed, the more convinced she became that disaster was imminent. Somehow, Neryl survived to return home to her son and tell this heart-stopping and inspirational story.

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Fontaine Press

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0992465869

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9780992465865