
The Crossing forms second part of Cormac Mc Carthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy that began with All the Pretty Horses & concludes with The Cities of the Plain Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World War Cormac Mc Carthy's The Crossing follows the fortunes of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham & his younger brother Boyd Fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family's property Billy captures the animal
- but rather than kill it sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to where it came from When Billy comes back to his own home he finds himself & his world irrevocably changed His loss of innocence has come at a price & once again the border beckons with its desolate beauty & cruel promise