New York: Alfred K. Knopf, 1998. First Edition. 292PP. Hardcover: FINE. Dust Wrapper: FINE. SIGNED by the author on a tipped in page.

The final volume of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy (following All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing). McCarthy brings the Old West into the modern era in this American tragedy. John Grady Cole, first introduced in the National Book Award winning All the Pretty Horses, and Billy Parnham, introduced in The Crossing, are friends working as ranch hands in New Mexico in 1952 when they resolve to rescue a Mexican prostitute from the claws of her pimp.