The Tagus Caudillo, Chronicle of the End of Europe

Synopsis

The sky has begun to burn. He crosses the night as a written sign for the last men of Europe. The U.S. has retreated. France and Britain have lost their nuclear deterrence. A Russian-Chinese partnership that engulfed boundaries, cities and armies advanced from the East while Morocco opened a second front about an abandoned Spain. At the Pyrenees, 6 million soldiers await the battle that will decide the fate of the continent. When a bombing annihilates the high European command and the chain of command crumbles, an end born by the Tagus emerges from the dead. His name's Ferran De Alvar. That's not general. He's not political. He doesn't want a crown. He only retains an inherited Bible, a stone from his earth and a faith that war has been unable to rip from him. But defeated men need more than orders. They have to believe. Soon, survivors start calling them Man's Driver. Then an old rumor goes through the trenches: the prophecy of the Grand Monarch, the caudillo to rise from the lands of Takho as Spain was lost and Europe found itself at the end of its destruction. Ferran rejects myth. He's afraid of pride and idolatry and absolute power. Nevertheless, every victory feeds legend. Each liberated city turns its name into a prayer. Each army that kneels before him approaches a little more the crown that he never requested. Between drones, artillery, burned cities and retreated armies, El Caudillo del Takho tells about the birth of a Messianic leader at the darkest moment of the West: a total war in which faith, blood, homeland and prophecy once again have been held back by modernity. Because as institutions fall, as treaties become ashes and democracies can no longer protect their peoples, men come back to old truths. To God. To earth. To the sword. And a caudillo capable of leading them to victory or to the end of the world.