Deep within the pulsating heart of modern-day San Francisco, John Adams finds himself ensnared in the suffocating grip of a relentless suicide cult. Despite his desperate pleas for guidance from every avenue—friends, therapists, even trusted colleagues—the tendrils of lunacy only tighten, threatening to plunge him over the precipice into darkness. With each passing moment, the sinister ideologies of the cult tighten their hold, propelling John towards an ominous climax where salvation seems but a distant dream, until an unlikely hero emerges from the shadows. Meanwhile, amidst the blood-soaked fields and tangled jungles of the Vietnam War, Chadwick Fuller fights not only the enemy lurking in the shadows but also the demons gnawing at his soul. Through the smoke and chaos of battle, his story unfurls—a raw narrative of camaraderie, chaos, and the brutal price of obedience. In the crucible of conflict, the true value of life is laid bare, etched into the faces of fallen comrades and the haunting echoes of war. With each turn of the page, the trajectories of these two lives hurtle towards an inevitable collision. Through shared hardships and improbable connections forged amidst adversity, a glimmer of hope flickers to life—a beacon of redemption amidst the darkness. Yet, as long-buried truths emerge and shadows of the past loom large, the destinies of mentor and mentee hang precariously in the balance. In a final, electrifying showdown, their resilience is tested to the brink as the specters of their past threaten to consume them whole. In this electrifying tale of suspense and revelation, the threads of fate entwine, weaving a narrative of sacrifice, redemption, and the indomitable resilience of the human spirit.

This edition includes: The Coral Island Snowflakes and Sunbeams (The Young Fur Traders) Ungava Martin Rattler The Dog Crusoe and his Master The World of Ice The Gorilla Hunters The Golden Dream The Red Eric Away in the Wilderness Fighting the Whales The Wild Man of the West Fast in the Ice Gascoyne The Lifeboat Chasing the Sun Freaks on the Fells The Lighthouse Fighting The Flames Silver Lake Deep Down Shifting Winds Hunting the Lions Over the Rocky Mountains Saved by the Lifeboat Erling the Bold The Battle and the Breeze The Cannibal Islands Lost in the Forest Digging for Gold Sunk at Sea The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands The Iron Horse The Norsemen in the West The Pioneers Black Ivory Life in the Red Brigade Fort Desolation The Pirate City The Story of the Rock Rivers of Ice Under the Waves The Settler and the Savage In the Track of the Troops Jarwin and Cuffy Philosopher Jack Post Haste The Lonely Island The Red Man's Revenge My Doggie and I The Giant of the North The Madman and the Pirate The Battery and the Boiler The Thorogood Family The Young Trawler Dusty Diamonds, Cut and Polished Twice Bought The Island Queen The Rover of the Andes The Prairie Chief The Lively Poll Red Rooney The Big Otter The Fugitives Blue Lights The Middy and the Moors The Eagle Cliff The Crew of the Water Wagtail Blown to Bits The Garret and the Garden Jeff Benson Charlie to the Rescue The Coxswain's Bride The Buffalo Runners The Hot Swamp Hunted and Harried The Walrus Hunters Wrecked but not Ruined Six Months at the Cape Memoirs: Personal Reminiscences in Book Making

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.