Vincenzo Fenili: On Mission - Agent Kasper, a life under cover

Vincenzo Fenili
Ed. Chiarelettere
pp. 296

The first question I asked myself when I started reading the book was: who is Vincenzo Fenili really? 
It took me a while to come up with my own idea, but the answer is there for all to see and is on the cover: an undercover agent.
"Are you sure?" Someone might ask me.
"Sure? No, of course. I'm not sure, but from what I've read I can say it's possible."
Here, therefore, I decided to believe what it tells and how much it is possible to know from more or less public events whose traces can be found on the internet.

On a mission is the author's second book (the first is "Supernotes"). The book tells the story of a life spent in the service of the Italian state and how the author was "rewarded" for his work, tells the story of some operations conducted undercover, since 1980, when Fenili was drafted into GLADIO, up to the present day. International drug trafficking, attempted coups d'état, never fully clarified events in the history of Italy.
In the novel / file there is not only him, Vincenzo Fenili alias Agent Kasper, but it is also possible to find other figures such as General Ganzer, carabiniere and commander of the ROS, accused of international drug trafficking and criminal conspiracy and then acquitted by the cassation, in January 2016, of all the accusations made against him.

In the book theAgent Kasper he pursues the tenuous thread that from the days of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin wall has reached the present day in the form of various suitcases loaded with nuclear explosives distributed in the main European cities. 
This story is intertwined with the vicissitudes of American intelligence and how the organization obtains funding through the clandestine dollar press, a story told in the previous book (which, among other things, I will read as soon as possible!) And with the events personal details of an agent who eventually ...

In the background there are the human vicissitudes of the man Vincenzo Fenili, with his problems with his father, an entomologist who perhaps never understood him or perhaps understood him and tried to spare him the disappointments he will have to face.
The story told is the story of men at the service of the State but also of the Italian State and of existing relations of force with other states in the field of international intelligence. 
It is the story of how sometimes it is not so simple to say which ones are good and which ones are bad.

The book is also the story of how Americans support their economy: "America has always been at war. They never stopped: World War II, Korea, Vietnam, proxy wars ... When the The USSR has invented terrorism. Their economy is based on war. I don't want to say that they are the ones who induce them, but if they didn't they would be a problem. "

Reading the book by Vincenzo Fenili is not like reading any novel because his is not just any novel, it is a sobering book and, perhaps for this reason, it is a book to be read calmly.

To the author a big good luck, to the readers a recommendation: read "On a mission" as if you were reading a history book, checking the information that is provided to you from time to time to get an idea of ​​your own. You will discover so many things about which maybe you still don't know enough.

Alessandro Rugolo