![]() ![]() No Country for Old Men is a novel of extraordinary resonance and power. ![]() Look for Cormac McCarthy's new novel, The Passenger. Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead. ![]() 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. The deputy was trying to get his hands inside the chain but he could not. 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. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. Speculative book cover for No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. 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. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN By CORMAC MCCARTHY Synopsis: Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy's first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy. ![]() From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel ( The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. ![]()
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