In the novel “The Red Banner of Stubbornness,” young and adult heroes have many problems. It tells about the fate of the Espada detachment, with whom the reader could get acquainted in two previous novels, “The Boy with the Sword” and “The Bronze Boy.” The action takes place in our time, and it has not become simpler and easier than the seventies and nineties of the last century. Strong friendship and loyalty to long-standing traditions, their banner, their sails help the captains and drummers of the Espada to withstand and not lower the flag.