NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The first volume in the Border Trilogy from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Look for Cormac McCarthy s latest novels The Passenger and Stella Maris.