It sounds like a classic startup success story, except for one problem: Blackwater has been demonized around the world. Both the Bush and Obama administrations found the company indispensible. As its reputation grew, government demand for its services escalated, and Blackwaters men eventually completed nearly one hundred thousand missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Founded by former Navy SEAL Erik Prince in 1997, it recruited special forces veterans and others with the skills and courage to take on the riskiest security jobs in the world. No company in our time has been as mysterious or as controversial as Blackwater. And get ready for a thrilling, true story that will make you rethink who the good guys and bad guys have been since 9/11. New Fine + Forget everything you think you know about Blackwater. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Also included in this volume is the story 'A Boy' s Adventure', originally written as part of the novel but published separately. Making a compelling case for the novel' s relevance for readers today, Griswold shows how the novel reveals Twain' s preoccupation with the elusive nature of identity - an issue that not only recurs in his work but also haunted his life. In spinning his tale, he draws on themes from ancient mythology, the Bible, familiar fairy tales, and popular children' s literature of the period. With characteristic humor and color, Twain brings to life the sixteenth-century royal court, the crowded, boisterous streets inhabited by London' s hoi polloi, and the behavior of two young boys who are in many ways smarter than their elders. It is at once an adventure story, a fantasy of timeless appeal, and an intriguing example of the author' s abiding interest in separating the true from the false, the genuine from the impostor. First published in 1881, The Prince and the Pauper is the story of a poor boy, Tom Canty, who exchanges clothes and identities with Edward Tudor, Prince of England. Included is the story 'A Boy' s Adventure', written as part of the novel but published separately. A novel about a poor, boy who exchanges identities with Edward Tudor, the prince of England, The Prince and the Pauper (1882) is at once an adventure story, a fantasy of timeless appeal, and an intriguing example of the author' s abiding preoccupation with separating the true from the false, the genuine from the impostor.

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