Plot Introduction
The finale of McCarthy's Western trilogy – preceded by All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing – takes place, like the first two novels, on both sides of the United States-Mexico border. The novel unites John Grady Cole, the protagonist of the trilogy's first book, with Billy Parham, another young cowboy, who is the protagonist in the The Crossing. Billy is nine years older than John Grady, now 19. Parham and Cole have formed a brotherly friendship as the novel opens.
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