Cities of the Plain Andrew Nugent 'It's such a pleasure to

'It's such a pleasure to sink into Keane's quietly luminous prose

I must be undefeatable

and hidden identities that might be better left unsolved

he is unprepared for the courageous

deeply moving and thought-provoking

Cities of the Plain Andrew Nugent 'It's such a pleasure toVolume Three of the Border Trilogy In Cities of the Plain, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico,