• Title: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
• Author: Cormac McCarthy
• Genre: Western, Historical Fiction
• Setting: American Southwest, 1849-1850
• Main Characters:

- The Kid: A young, innocent boy who joins a gang of scalp hunters - Judge Holden: A charismatic and enigmatic figure who leads the gang

• Plot: The Kid and Judge Holden travel through the Southwest, killing Native Americans for their scalps. Along the way, they encounter violence, brutality, and the horrors of war.
• Themes:

- The nature of good and evil - The violence of the American frontier - The search for meaning in a chaotic world