Review of 'Blood Meridian'.

Blood Meridian exists on a level all its own. Oh, lets not forget sheer anomaly that comes thru as just the facts, just the way that it is. There had been a John Glanton and a gang of scalp hunters under contract to the Mexican Governor of Chihuahua. Chihuahua. He had a really colourful background like so many other Texan forerunners. Blood Meridian is also an advisory story on the risks of privatization of army and law enforcement. A masterwork that hits all of the dots, Blood Meridian has lyricism, poetry, story, and musings philosophic, intertwined with sheer horror, populated by dreadful characters that are still totally plausible in all of their OTT malevolent. Oh, lets not forget sheer paradox that comes thru as just the facts, just the way that it is. There had been a John Glanton and a gang of scalp hunters under contract to the Mexican Governor of Chihuahua. Blood Meridian is also an advisory story on the hazards o f privatization of army and law enforcement. Shades of todays Blackwater and non-public mercenary groups in the Middle East and now more here in the US. The outsourcing of the conflict in Chihuahua against the Apaches finished in catastrophe.