Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian is his masterpiece . . . An astonishing sanguinary epic dealing with the Indian wars of the 1840s in West Texas and Mexico . . . Unlike anything I have ever read in recent years, an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement - John Banville, author of The Sea

A bloody and starkly beautiful tale - Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times

Possibly the greatest American novel of the past 25 years - Aleksandar Hemon, author of The World and All That It Holds and The Lazarus Project

I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or as memorable as Blood Meridian . . . A nightmare odyssey - Evening Standard

The Judge is the book, and the Judge is, short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in all of American literature - Harlold Bloom, on the character of Judge Holden in Blood Meridian

McCarthy distances us not only from the historical past, not only from our cowboy-and-Indian images of it, but also revisionist theories that make white men the villains and Indians the victims. All men are unremittingly bloodthirsty here, poised at a peak of violence, the "meridian" from which their civilization will quickly fall - New York Times Book Review

In Blood Meridian, McCarthy reaches the peak of his style: spare and ornate at once, repetitious but endlessly readable - Guardian

Blood Meridian, published in 1985, is a brilliant, uncompromising work of fiction – imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided Satan, wrote a western - The Times