Review of 'Blood Meridian'.

Theres bloody action, conflict, violence, gunplay, the untouched spaces of the land of the North American Southwest, and just as critical, the Mexican Northwest. 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. There had been a John Glanton and a gang of scalp hunters under contract to the Mexican Governor of Chihuahua. Free chihuahuas. He had a colourful background like so many other Texan lead runners. Oh, lets not forget sheer paradox that comes thru as just the facts, just the way that it is. He had a particularly colourful background like so many other Texan pathfinders. Shades of todays Blackwater and personal mercenary groups in the Middle East and now more here in the U. S. .

Set against a tripartite of a Mexican, Anglo, and Indigenous American back drop Maybe the most wonderful thing about this novel is that while nothing good actually ever occurs, Mcarthy trains you not to expect it.