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No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, who had originally written the story as a screenplay. The story occurs in the vicinity of the Mexico–United States border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert back country.
Jul 19, 2005 · A thriller novel set in the Texas-Mexico border, where a good old boy finds a truck full of heroin and cash and becomes a target of a ruthless killer. Read ratings, reviews, and quotes from the book and its film adaptation.
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- Paperback
- Cormac Mccarthy
Jul 11, 2006 · 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 law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain.
- Vintage
- $10.39
A review and analysis of the 2005 novel by Cormac McCarthy, a neo-noir thriller about a man pursued by a psychopathic killer for a suitcase of drug money. Learn about the themes, characters, quotes, historical context, and similar books of this dark and gritty masterpiece.
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.
- Cormac Mccarthy
- Paperback
Jul 25, 2005 · Here, the story’s set in 1980 in southern Texas near the Mexican border, where aging Sheriff Bell, a decorated WWII veteran, broods heroically over the territory he’s sworn to protect, while—in a superb, sorrowful monologue—acknowledging the omnipresence of ineradicable evil all around him.
Jul 11, 2006 · A crime novel set in the Texas-Mexico border, where a good old boy finds a load of heroin and two million dollars in cash, and becomes a target of a mysterious killer. Read an excerpt, learn more about the author, and buy the paperback or ebook from Barnes & Noble.
