No Country for Old Men (Vintage International) Book

In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones.

One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the lawâ??in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bellâ??can contain.

As Moss tries to evade his pursuersâ??in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human livesâ??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 morningâ??s headlines.
No Country for Old Men is a triumph.