John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of many generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilised; a place where dreams are paid for in blood. The first volume in the legendary Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival.