Summary

A few months after the events of Book III, Juan Pablo is in the United Arab Emirates working for a private military contractor in a aerial targeting cell with an international staff. His team has just called an air strike at a wedding suspected Houthi insurgent leaders were believed to be attending, and Juan Pablo can see that there are multiple civilian causalities including children. He reflects how the Colombian mercenaries are on the ground in Yemen using sophisticated weapons against in a “primitive”, dirty war against the Shi'a Houthi insurgents, who killed thousands of civilians before intervention by a regional Sunni coalition backed by the U.S.. Juan Pablo finds ludicrous the idea of what he considers such a “primitive” culture as the Houthi's prosecuting such a high-tech war with Russian and Iranian technology against a global force with even more sophisticated...