Juan Pablo Pulido

At the start of the novel, Juan Pablo is a lieutenant colonel in the Colombian special forces tasked with an American-supported anti-narcoterrorism campaign in the Norte de Santander region. He provides one of the novel's four first-person perspectives in Books I and II, and is its main protagonist whose narrative provides the main thrust of novel's plot in its "present" time. He is also the only main character featured in Book IV's epilogue to the previous year's events leading up to the Colombian peace vote and his subsequent resignation from the regular military. Klay introduces Juan Pablo at his home in Bogota the evening Mason Baumer, his Special Forces liaison with the American embassy, is coming for dinner, to meet Juan Pablo's wife and daughter and to talk about the ongoing Operation Agamemnon. Just as Mason offers the novel's key American perspective on US global military...