Chapter 7
Europe
Tirana was a curious, chaotic city, with constant nineties cars traffic jams, full of cafes, with street markets on the sidewalks, calls to prayer from its few mosques and with a rich nightlife. Very different than what I expected.
Our contact there brought us up to date on the details of the operation. We had to capture a certain Ismail Murad, the head of a local mafia group dedicated to the trafficking of women, drugs, and weapons. The Albanian mafias were famous for their violence and had prospered greatly with the different wars in the Balkans, which opened the opportunity for them to be the new entry point of h****n from Turkey into Europe. They created the new Balkan route and exported large quantities of drugs to the United States. Our target was not one of the m
