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Border trilogy volume 1
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English
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Young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, sets off with two companions across the border of Mexico.
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Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Texas/Mexico border when he stumbles upon several dead men, a big stash of heroin, and more than two million dollars in cash. He takes off with the money -- and the hunter becomes the hunted. A drug cartel hires a former Special Forces agent to track down the loot, and a ruthless killer joins the chase as well. Also looking for Moss is the aging Sheriff Bell, a World War II veteran who may be Moss' only hope...
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Border trilogy volume 3
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English
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The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico, not far from the proving grounds of Alamogordo and the cities of El Paso and Juarez. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and...
4) Outer dark
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English
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A man tells his sister that the child she bore him is dead, but learning it is alive, she searches the woods for her lost son.
6) The crossing
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Border trilogy volume 2
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English
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Having trapped a she-wolf, sixteen-year-old Billy leaves his home in the bootheel of New Mexico to restore her to the mountains of Mexico--only to find, when he returns home, that everything has changed, except his kid brother Boyd, with whom he sets out to explore a nation caught between the old frontier and the Second World War.
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
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Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling trio of novels, The Border Trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time, 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 a dreams are paid for in blood b In All the Pretty Horses, young John Grady Cole, dispossessed...
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