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| The Kid A nameless fourteen-year-old from Tennessee who drifts into the violence of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the 1840s and joins the Glanton Gang. He is distinguished from his companions by a faint capacity for mercy that Judge Holden finds threatening. The novel tracks his journey from naive drifter to scarred survivor across decades of carnage. | Member |
| Judge Holden |
A vast, hairless, seemingly ageless man of extraordinary intelligence who rides with the Glanton Gang. He speaks multiple languages, plays the fiddle, and is a skilled naturalist and scientist who argues a philosophy in which war is the ultimate human expression and he himself its perfect embodiment. He claims he will never die. The most terrifying figure in McCarthy's fiction and one of the great villains of American literature.
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