The distressed vessel’s position appeared on the giant screen at the front of the operations center. Renzi entered the full coordinates into his computer: 33☄9'N–13☄1'E. The man read the numbers from the screen: “One, three. “And beneath that? I need the number beneath.” “Thirty-three degrees, forty-nine minutes north,” Renzi repeated, confirming the caller’s position. Swells as high as fifteen meters had already been reported tonight, and the storm was only getting worse. Rarer still, did they consult weather forecasts. Rarely did they provide them with enough fuel to make the journey. Once they had been paid, they put their passengers into unseaworthy boats, tossed in a compass and a satellite phone preprogrammed with the emergency number of the Guardia Costiera, and pointed them toward Italy. North African refugee smugglers were subhuman. This was exactly the kind of call Renzi and his team were worried about tonight. Renzi snapped his fingers to get his colleagues’ attention. “My latitude is N, three, three, four, nine.”

Mayday,” a voice said in heavily accented English.

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