When they returned to Italy, Captain Rolando Cecchi and Sergeant Giovannino Gregori, who had never met in Afghanistan, found themselves working together as SISDE agents, each maintaining the rank they had as a soldier. They completed several missions together and had become good friends. Neither had a rosy past, but they never mentioned a single word about their time as soldiers in Afghanistan neither between themselves nor with others. Their last mission, still in progress, had been assigned to them by the Director, General Santanastasi, a few months earlier. The Director had called them to his office, where he had explained to them, in broad outline, what was worrying him.
“It seems that there was a violation of a secret site in the province of Ancona. The detectors indicate that some i
