Cormack McCarthy is a modern American classic of the main caliber, a winner of the MacArthur Fellowship “For Genius”, a master of complex experiences and non-standard syntax, well known to our readers for his novels “No Country for Old Men” (the Coen brothers’ film based on this book received four Oscars) ), The Road (which won a Pulitzer Prize and was also made into a film), Blood Meridian (“a sort of cross between Dante’s Inferno, The Iliad and Moby Dick,” as Booker winner John Banville put it) and Horses. horses..." (received the US National Book Award and was adapted for the screen by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz). And now, for the first time, the novel “Beyond the Line” is being published in Russian - the second book of the so-called “Border Trilogy”, which began with the novel “Horses, Horses...”. Combining the directness of a classic Western with the elegance of a half-forgotten myth, McCarthy tells the story of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham: after catching an elusive she-wolf that has been attacking cattle on the surrounding farms, Billy decides to return her to her homeland - the mountains of Mexico. As soon as he crossed this line, it was as if he turned into the hero of an ancient cruel epic, where people meet ghosts, and violence is as swift as lightning.