The Crossing (The Border Trilogy #2)

The Crossing (The Border Trilogy #2)In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth. In the late 1930s, sixteen year old Billy Parham captures a she wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With

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a New York chef who believes he's found the next great ethnic cuisine

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and helped spur the end of the Cold War

sobbing in the Oval Office

a charismatic and bloodthirsty cult leader who turns CIEL into a quasi-corporate police state

launched political dynasties

infantry and saw action at the Battle of the Bulge--as well as the liberation of a concentration camp--but ended his army career interrogating Nazis

Many still fear that his accession to the throne will cause a constitutional crisis

there are forces that have very definite plans for his future

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