Review of 'Blood Meridian'.

A masterwork that hits all of the dots, Blood Meridian has lyricism, poetry, account, and musings philosophic, intertwined with sheer horror, populated by atrocious characters that are still definitely plausible in all of their ott malignant. The banality of this hell world maybe is its most annoying undercurrent.

There had been a John Glanton and a gang of scalp hunters under contract to the Mexican Governor of Chihuahua. John Glanton was a Texan originally from South Carolina by way of Tennessee, like so many other Texans. Chihuahua puppy. A masterwork that hits all of the dots, Blood Meridian has lyricism, poetry, account, and musings philosophic, intertwined with sheer horror, populated by atrocious characters that are still definitely plausible in all of their OTT malevolent.

The banality of this hell world maybe is its most upsetting undercurrent. He had a colourful background like so many other Texan front runners. Blood Meridian is also an advisory story on the dangers of privatization of army and law enforcement. The outsourcing of the conflict in Chihuahua against the Apaches finished in catastrophe. Shades of todays Blackwater and personal mercenary groups in the Middle East and now more here in the US. The historic threads, good and noxious, the mythology and fact. Set against a tripartite of a Mexican, Anglo, and Indigenous American back drop.