Cormac Mc Carthy's award-winning bestselling trio of novels chronicles the coming-of-age of two young men in the south west of America John Grady Cole & Billy Parham two cowboys of the old school are poised on the edge of a world about to change forever Their journeys across the border into Mexico each an adventure fraught with fear & pain mark a passage into adulthood & eventual salvation 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 & a dangerously ill-fated romance In The Crossing sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch & 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 & passion In the vanishing world of the Old West blood & violence are conditions of life Beautiful & brutal filled with sorrow & humour The Border Trilogy is both an epic love story & a fierce elegy for the American frontier