... through the events surrounding his tenure in the Mexican jail, which besieged John with excruciating pain. Hazard and choice were integral in the consummation of John Grady's quest. John Grady Cole was the stereotypical cowboy superimposed into a modern world, in which his romantic conception of the West, along with the ritualistic code of passion, skill, justice, loyalty, and honor it entails ... ...

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