Salang

As the Western world waits for the announcement that Russia will withdraw her troops from Afghanistan, an undercover operation is mounted in Whitehall which is designed to increase the difficulties of Russia's occupying force in the bitter war against Afghan guerrilla bands. Mike Wills, a disgraced - and therefore expendable - former SAS officer, is teamed with a Russian defector, Anatoly Gradinsky. The two men are to be sent secretly into Afghanistan on a sabotage mission. Their target: the Salang Tunnel, on the vital supply line between Russia and her troops. The television newscaster and reporter Sandy Gall has travelled extensively in Afghanistan and has made three highly-acclaimed television films on the guerrilla that had been fought there for the last nine years.