Blood Money

Softcover 

2018

Johan Raath acted as a bodyguard for VIPs and, more often, engineers who were involved in construction projects to rebuild the country after the 2003 war. His physical and mental endurance was tested to the limit in his efforts to safeguard construction sites that were regularly subjected to mortar and suicide attacks.

• His physical and mental endurance was tested to the limit in his efforts to safeguard construction sites that were regularly subjected to mortar and suicide attacks. Key to his survival was his training as a Special Forces operator, or Recce. Working in places called the Triangle of Death and driving on the Hell Run, Raath had numerous hair-raising experiences. As a trained combat medic he also helped to save peoples lives after two suicide bomb attacks on sites he then worked at.