El cielo prometido

An ice ax and a heartbreaking scream are the elements that add drama to the moment in which Ramón Mercader ended Trotsky's life, a story that has become one of the myths of our time. This is just one more episode of the incredible evolution of the Mercader family, narrated here as if it were a novel, and in which it is not Ramón, but his mother Caridad de él, who emerges as the main figure of this convulsive chronicle of the 20th century. Caridad was a dazzling and seductive woman, a Lady Macbeth capable of pulling the strings of history and an agent at the service of Soviet espionage. Her most important mission: to get her son to escape from the prison where he had been held for his crime. Complex and fascinating, Caridad Mercader is the guiding thread of this book through which some of the most relevant characters and events of the last century intersect and which allows us to reflect on the paradoxes of the human condition.