American black-operations agent James Silva is a character in the 2018 action thriller "Mile 22."
Mark Wahlberg plays Silva, the operational leader of Overwatch, a covert CIA Special Activities Division unit. In the film, Silva and his team must escort Li Noor, an intelligence asset who possesses information about a shipment of dangerous nuclear material. Their extraction route covers 22 miles to an airport while hostile forces pursue them.
Directed by Peter Berg and written by Lea Carpenter, "Mile 22" combines espionage, tactical action, and a deliberately tense countdown structure. It was released in August 2018 and also stars Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais, Ronda Rousey, and John Malkovich.
A possible mix-up is confusing James Silva with a real intelligence officer or with another Wahlberg action character. Silva is fictional, and "Mile 22" is not a documentary or direct account of a specific operation. The title refers to the distance the team must travel to reach the extraction point, making the character and film closely linked in the story's central mission.