This book is the author's personal testimony of the dramatic events in post-communist Albania. It is an extensive report from an eyewitness journalist, a timeless journey where he recounts everything he experienced on-site, what he learned behind the scenes, and all that was told to him by the key players of the crisis.

“...Kitsos Kollas shoved his hand under the car seat and pulled out a Kalashnikov with a folding stock, para, as we used to say in the army. ‘Will you be able to use it if necessary?’ he asked me. ‘I have no idea how it works and I’m not interested,’ I replied. ‘Besides, I didn’t come here to fight, but to report.’ ‘Agreed, but reports are made by the living and this could be useful to you,’ he replied, showing me the small machine gun he had for himself in the back seat of the Mercedes.”

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]