At the same time, I developed a passion for aviation that led me to become the youngest civil pilot of the Parma Aeroclub in January 1991. No ultralights aircrafts like today: at the time you took off “solo” and landed a two-ton metal machine. During that period, I often liked to repeat that “I flew planes during the Gulf War,” which is a logically impeccable sentence. Over the years, I have acquired hundreds of books and publications on everything that was the world of military aviation, building a library of which I am still proud. In the early 2000s, thanks to military service in a front-line unit and some knowledge in the environment, I was hired by a company that offered consulting and equipment for Government Entities. There began the career of collaboration as a civilian consultant with various Departments of the Italian Special Forces during the troubled years of their reorganization for the creation of the COFS (Joint Command for Italian Special Operations). I witnessed the transformation of our Special Forces Units which until then were “looking for a mission”, into a structure that in the following twenty years were the backbone of the Western device in Iraq and Afghanistan. This work experience allowed me to collect so many anecdotes from the operators that they convinced me, almost jokingly, to write my first novel with the Italian Special Forces as protagonists in 2007: the novel “La giusta decisione”. Without necessarily wanting to be presumptuous, I think I was the first Italian author to deliberately break the taboo of wanting to talk about a story set in Italy, with Italian protagonists, with high technical content. The book was liked by the audience. The trend was set, and subsequently other authors, even more famous, took up this literary sub-genre that, before 2007, had been dominated exclusively by foreign authors, or by Italian authors who wrote stories with Anglo-Saxon protagonists. I would like, after almost twenty years of writing on these topics, to clarify a concept: I did not want to write my first novel in an outburst of “intellectual autarchy”, but I published it because at the time, having firsthand knowledge of the reality of the Special Forces Overseas and also of the Italian ones, I was in a privileged position to be able to affirm that there were no particular differences at the level of operational effectiveness, if not in that (fundamental) of the political will of their employment. In the following seventeen years, I wrote other novels, in which I had the direct and official collaboration of some Units for their drafting, until then arriving to collaborate to contribute to the first official biography of a GOI Raider of the Italian Navy (“CAIMANO 69 – Sabbia e Polvere”), a book that to date, together with the novel “Collera dal Mare”, represents my zenith as an author. In 2023, I came out with a fictionalized biography that allowed me to return to my ancestral passions, namely, aviation and the Cold War: “The Stealth Fighter”. This book is my declaration of love to the world of aviation and model building, and it was a story that I had to write to restore a personal balance between what was being asked of me (since 2018 I have been collaborating with other talented Italian authors or doing ghost-writing for more or less famous military biographies) and what I really wanted to write for myself. I am not a full-time writer (like 99% of Italian authors): depending on the project, I write from six to three hours a week. To tell the truth, I don’t even consider myself a writer, a label that I leave to individuals whose mental fluidity is too compromised by having to juggle on very different media to get by. I consider myself a person who, taking advantage of today’s editorial possibilities and the public’s specific interest in certain topics, writes stories irregularly.