In this modern-day Western--his first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, bestselling Border Trilogy--Mccarthy pens a harrowing story of a war that society wages on itself, an enduring meditation of the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies.
No Country for Old Men is a triumph..
When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law-in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell-can contain.
As Moss tries to evade his pursuers-in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives-Mccarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning\'s headlines.
A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back.
One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men.
The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones.
In his blistering new novel, Cormac Mccarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy .
In this modern-day Western--his first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, bestselling Border Trilogy--Mccarthy pens a harrowing story of a war that society wages on itself, an enduring meditation of the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies
