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PublisherMacmillan Audio

ISBN-101250837502

ISBN-139781250837509

eBay Product ID (ePID)5050104085

Product Key Features

TopicTerrorism, Intelligence & Espionage, General, Military

Book TitleBlack Ops : the Life of a Cia Shadow Warrior

Publication Year2022

LanguageEnglish

GenrePolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorRic Prado

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Height1 In.

Item Length1 In.

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Width1 In.

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal327.12730092

Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition

Table Of ContentTable of Contents PROLOGUE PART I: CHAPTER ONE: Cuban Sunset CHAPTER TWO: The Silver Spurs CHAPTER THREE: American Origins CHAPTER FOUR: Starting from the Bottom CHAPTER FIVE: Embracing and Escaping the Street PART II: CHAPTER SIX: Running Through the Shade CHAPTER SEVEN: Agency Man CHAPTER EIGHT: The Much-Maligned Patriots CHAPTER NINE: On the Spearhead of the Reagan Doctrine CHAPTER TEN: Friends in Low Places CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Barracudas CHAPTER TWELVE: Risks and Rewards PART III: CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Living in Yellow CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Washington Two Step CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Swimming Up The Chain CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Exploiting the Chain CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Sparrows CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Afternoon of Darkness CHAPTER NINETEEN: A Stranger's Loyalty CHAPTER TWENTY: The Outcast Kingdom PART IV: CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: The Jihad Factory CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: The Godfather of Terror CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: The Meat Eater's Shangri-La CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Tombstone Rules CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Headquarters Station CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: The Last Normal Morning CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: The Payback Begins CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: The New Initiative CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Construct CHAPTER THIRTY: Crystal Marbles CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Not Nine to Five Material POSTSCRIPT: The Forty Year Brief ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SynopsisA 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'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 USA 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's 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: 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 proved pivotal in the coming War on Terror. 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 warriors. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press