<p>Francis Mirkovi?, a French Intelligence Services agent for fifteen years, is travelling first class on the train from Milan to Rome. Handcuffed to the luggage rack above him is a briefcase containing a wealth of information about the war criminals, terrorists and arms dealers of the Zone ? the Mediterranean region, from Barcelona to Beirut, from Algiers to Trieste, which has become his speciality ? to sell to the Vatican. Exhausted by alcohol ...