The explosive national bestseller memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the central intelligence agency as the cia equivalent of a two-star general. Black ops is the story of ric and #8217s legendary career that spanned two eras, the cold war and the age of terrorism. Operating in the shadows, ric and his fellow cia officers fought a little-seen and virtually unknown war to keep use safe from those who would do it harm. After duty stations in central, south America, and the Philippines, black ops follows ric into the highest echelons of the cia and #8217s headquarters at Langley, Virginia. In late 1995, he became deputy chief of station and co-founding member of the bin laden task force. Three years later, after serving as head of Korean operations, ric took on one of the most dangerous missions of his career and #58, to re-establish a once-abandoned cia station inside a hostile nation long since considered a front line of the fight against Islamic terrorism. He and his team carried out covert operations and developed assets that preview.