Objetivo vivir

# Museum Catalog Note

This Spanish-language spy thriller serial, "Objetivo vivir" (Objective: To Live), by Lou Carrigan, centers on Italian SID agent Hugo Melli's meeting with CIA operative "Baby" in Palermo's National Museum. The narrative alternates between espionage procedural and character study: Melli, a sixty-year-old veteran intelligence officer, has been selected to negotiate with the legendary but physically unremarkable Baby regarding a wounded CIA agent, Arnold Buckee, hospitalized in Rome. Buckee allegedly participated in an assassination attempt on Italian Minister Mariano Rumor at Leonardo da Vinci Airport alongside Greek mercenary Nikos Telika and others. The story follows their initial encounter at the museum, then shifts to a seaside café where Baby and Melli establish cautious rapport, discussing the case's suspicious elements while Baby's security detail remains vigilant. Baby expresses professional skepticism about all parties' honesty, including the CIA's.