false 11983785 606459 12497 0375706674 9780375706677 2009 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166503883m/12497.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166503883s/12497.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12497.No_Country_for_Old_Men 3.97 12560 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 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.
No Country for Old Men is a triumph.]]> 4178 4.00 104344 20883 2005 5 0 false Tue Jan 08 11:54:18 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 11:54:26 -0800 2008