**25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION** **• F** **rom the bestselling author of** The Passenger **and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel** The Road: **a** **n epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West.** **One of** The Atlantic **’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years** Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, *Blood Meridian* traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. **Look for Cormac McCarthy’s latest bestselling novels,** The Passenger **and** Stella Maris **.**