For those chosen to fight terrorism at its source, secrecy is the only imperative - a rule Special Agent Jeremy Waller is about to find out the hard way. Selected for the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team, Agent Waller gives up a life he thought he understood to dive headlong into a violent world of trap- door truths and shifting alliances where the greatest threat may be his own sense of right and wrong. Racing from the FBI's secret training rooms to Arabian deserts, from the halls of Congress to the back rooms of Wall Street, and told with a voice only an insider like Christopher Whitcomb could summon, "Black" lifts the curtain on a world of secret operations and corporate manipulation - a world where Agent Waller discovers that sometimes the only way to get out of the darkness is to head even deeper into the shadows.