**From the bestselling author of *The Passenger *and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel* The Road **•*** **In this taut, chilling story,** **Lester Ballard** — **a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.** While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance. Like the novelists he admires-Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner-Cormac McCarthy has created an imaginative oeuvre greater and deeper than any single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods themselves. — *Washington Post* **Look for Cormac McCarthy’s latest bestselling novels, *The Passenger* and *Stella Maris*.**