“Crossing the line” covers the period from December 2003 to January 2004. Odysseus, on orders from the leadership, undertakes an extremely dangerous operation—delivering a shipment of guided anti-tank and anti-air missiles to Iraqi rebels fighting Americans and growing stronger Islamists, disguised as military contraband from Poland. After a whole chain of dangerous adventures, he completes the mission. But then information arrives in the Center that he has died. The Center, which has just carried out an operation to protect Odysseus’s family (through it, their enemies tried to find him), bids farewell to its most successful agent—only to discover that the “dead man” is on the air live…