In The 1930s, Two Teenage Brothers Whose Ranch In New Mexico Was Raided By Bandits, Cross Into Mexico To Search For Stolen Horses. The Novel Follows Them Through The Revolution-torn Countryside, Meeting Soldiers, Peasants, Priests And Thieves, All Proffering Advice. By The Author Of All The Pretty Horses. Volume Two: The Border Trilogy. By Cormac Mccarthy.