*Hmmm. I gotta pick up one of this guy's novels.
Link: Blood, Bullets, Bombs and Bandwidth.
"Blood, Bullets, Bombs, and Bandwidth:a tale of two California cipherpunks who went to Baghdad to seek their fortune, and bring the Internet to Iraq.
"Ryan Lackey wears body armor to business meetings. He flies armed helicopters to client sites. He has a cash flow problem: he is paid in hundred-dollar bills, sometimes shrink-wrapped bricks of them, and flowing this money into a bank is difficult. He even calls some of his company's transactions "drug deals" – but what Lackey sells is Internet access. From his trailer on Logistics Staging Area Anaconda, a colossal US Army base fifty miles north of Baghdad, Lackey runs Blue Iraq, surely the most surreal ISP on the planet. He is 26 years old...".
