No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

In his blistering modern novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, the setting of his extremely popular Border Trilogy. The time is our possess, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and little towns have ended up free-fire zones. One day, Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck encompassed by a bodyguard of dead men. A stack of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Greenery takes the cash, he sets off a chain response of disastrous violence that not even the law–in the individual of maturing, frustrated Sheriff Bell–can contain. As Moss tries to avoid his pursuers–in specific a strange engineer who flips coins for human lives–McCarthy at the same time strips down the American wrongdoing novel and broadens its concerns to include subjects as old as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph