Chapter 16

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Chapter 16The Exchange Ten minutes early, we stop the armoured truck at the point indicated to us. The road is absurdly two-way and fortunately we don't see any suicidal lunatics driving along it. The disturbing cliff on our left is between fifteen and twenty meters, while on the right the vegetation is so thick that it could stand up to an Amazonian forest. The sun on the horizon is a large fiery ball whose colours gradually fade to an orange more in keeping with a meeting with the night. The operational team, in addition to myself, Angela and Father Carlo, is composed of six other members of the Brotherhood: Francesco, Paolo, Luca, Sandro, Emilio and Matteo. Men from whose eyes no age transpires. The wrinkles fade in the face and blend into the scars of those who seem to have stepped a

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