The LAST INCAS: gold of Atahuallpa

Nearly five hundred years ago, on the icy peaks of the Andes, two brothers clashed over a throne. One had the sun on his side; the other, the blood of warriors. Between them, an entire empire was torn apart, and from its ashes emerged a new world that neither of them could have imagined.This novel is born from an obsession: to listen to the voices that the chronicles silenced.The events narrated here-the civil war between Huáscar and Atahualpa, the Inca's capture in Cajamarca, the room filled with gold without saving anyone, the execution of the last sovereign, the fall of Cusco-are documented in the chronicles of the conquest. In the writings of Pedro Pizarro, Francisco de Xerez, Inca Garcilaso, Guamán Poma de Ayala, and so many other witnesses, I have found the bones of this story.But bones don't speak. They don't cry. They don't hesitate. That's why, where history remains silent, fiction raises its voice.The dialogues you will read, the glances exchanged in the darkness of a dungeon, the tears that fall upon the sacred stone, the dreams that torment the generals on the eve of battle... all of that is dramatization.A necessary invention. Because the tragedy of Tawantinsuyu was not just a succession of battles and betrayals: it was a human tragedy, made up of brothers who loved and destroyed each other, of gods who fell silent, of a people who saw their world crumble under the hooves of beasts they had never seen.