This book has everything I want out of good fiction. A page-turning plot, conflicted characters, pure evil and the threat of massive loss, high stakes, transcendent thematic undercurrents, and beautiful prose.

I'd say this is McCarthy's second greatest work, behind only the insurpassable Blood Meridian. Ed Tom Bell and Anton Chigurh (the protagonist and antagonist) are both layers upon layers of realistic character traits and actions and desires. The relentlessness and calmness with which Chigurh destroys everyone in his path is truly haunting, and Bell's inability to conceive of such evil in the world make for sky-high tension, and allow for McCarthy to explore some of the greater depths of both the evil in the world, and the direction the world is heading.

I'd recommend this book to anyone who has eyes in their head.