Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning and bestselling trio of novels, The Border Trilogy, constitutes a genuine American epic. The young men in these novels come of age on Southwestern ranches in the 1930s, while across the border, Mexico beckons them with its desolate beauty and the cruel promise of a place where dreams are paid for in blood.In All the Pretty Horses, young John Grady Cole, dispossessed by the sale of his family’s Texas ranch, heads across the border in search of the cowboy life, where he finds a job breaking horses, and a dangerously ill-fated romance. In The Crossing, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch and, instead of killing it, decides to take it on a perilous journey home to the mountains of Mexico. These two drifters come together years later in Cities of the Plain, a magnificent tale of friendship and passion. McCarthy’s haunting evocation of two young men poised on the edge of a world about to change for ever, serves as a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier.