<FONT size=2><EM>All the Pretty Horses </EM>- the first volume of the <EM>Borders Trilogy </EM>- tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Across the border Mexico beckons - beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With two companions, he sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.</FONT>