Mercenary mum, my journey from young mother to Baghdad bodyguard, Neryl Joyce
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Mercenary mum, my journey from young mother to Baghdad bodyguard, Neryl Joyce
Language
eng
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Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Mercenary mum
Medium
electronic resource
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dictionaries
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Neryl Joyce
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Sub title
my journey from young mother to Baghdad bodyguard
Summary
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
Target audience
adult
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