«In a lovely and terrible landscape of natural beauty and impending loss we find John Grady; a young cowboy of the old school, trusted by men and horses, and a fragile young woman, whose salvation becomes his obsession . . . McCarthy makes the sweeping plains a miracle.»

Scotsman

«Like the Western settings he captures to perfection, his work is both heart-wrenchingly beautiful and uncompromisingly brutal.»

Express

«The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature»

Guardian

«This haunting, deeply felt novel completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990s»

Telegraph

«Like a slow-acting hallucinogen, the book has managed to transform a Texas boy of sixteen looking for adventure into a mysterious figure that augurs the destruction of the world»

Rachel Kushner, author of <i>The Mars Room</i>