Used book – Les Papillons n'ont pas de mémoire, Hubert Prolongeau

The first episode of the adventures of Paul Freda, an endearing, globetrotting aid worker from the NGO Doctors For All (DFA). Sent to Colombia to investigate the assassination of one of the organization's doctors, he will take the reader deep into the jungle, becoming a witness to a guerrilla war that is beyond his control.

1996. Paul Freda, an aid worker with no illusions about the world, is sent to Colombia by the NGO Doctors For All.

The organization is in mourning. One of its doctors has just been assassinated in broad daylight in Bogotá. For Freda, the task is to track down the killers and understand this ordinary urban violence. Very quickly, he finds himself confronted with guerrilla warfare, corruption, and organized crime. Through his contact with the young revolutionaries who have taken him hostage, he discovers how poverty creates real child soldiers in northern Latin America. From summary executions to manipulations by the Colombian authorities, Freda eventually gets drawn, alongside Rosaria, a young woman linked to the guerrillas, into a perilous quest for the truth that will lead them all the way to Guatemala...

A first adventure for Paul Freda, closely linked to current events, full of emotion and twists, with an endearing and humorous character, but also a complex and fascinating region of the world that the author, a senior reporter, has traveled extensively.