Blood Meridian
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2015-08-13
Language: eng
Format: ebook
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781447289463
Copyright date: 1985
Subjects: Fiction, westerns
First sentence: Thirty years ago, if you’d asked someone to name the most important writers in America, Cormac McCarthy would not have been one of them.
Description: Through the hostile landscape of the Texas–Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood.

A group known as the Glanton gang hunt Indigenous Americans, collecting scalps as their bloody trophies. At the centre of this violence stands Judge Holden: a massive, hairless man, mysterious if not supernatural, erudite and cold-blooded. He is singularly extreme in his sadistic violence.

But the apparent chaos is not without order – the Glanton gang, too, are stalked as prey.