Enrique "RIC" Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of middle-class Cuban parents caught in the midst of the Castro revolution, Ric fled his war-torn home with his family in 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's 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 the United States safe from those who would do it harm. A harrowing memoir of life in the shadowy world of assassins, terrorists, spies, and revolutionaries, Black Ops is a testament to the courage, creativity, and dedication of the Agency's Special Activities Group and its elite shadow werriors.