Border Trilogy Volume 2: Crossing by Cormac McCarthy (Paperback)
- The Crossing forms second part of Cormac McCarthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy
- That began with All the Pretty Horses and concludes with The Cities of the Plain
- Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World War
- Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing follows the fortunes of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham and 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 and his world irrevocably changed
- His loss of innocence has come at a price
- And once again the border beckons with its desolate beauty and cruel promise
