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While out hunting along the Texas-Mexican border, Llewellyn Moss stumbles upon mysterious crime scene, with a number of men dead or dying and pickup trucks riddled with bullets. After examining the results of this shootout, he discovers a large cache of heroin and a satchel containing millions in cash. He quickly grabs the money and flees the scene. Unbeknownst to him, this will set in motion a relentless and ruthless manhunt, with two men tasked by the competing groups behind the apparent drug
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You think about a job where you have pretty much the same authority as God and there is no requirements put upon you and you are charged with preservin nonexistent laws and you tell me if thats peculiar or not.
It took me a little while to get used to the writing style (and the use of the Southern accent), but once i'd picked it up in my head to the point where I was tearing through page after page it was utterly absorbing.
The only negative point was that I had already seen the film three or four ...more
It took me a little while to get used to the writing style (and the use of the Southern accent), but once i'd picked it up in my head to the point where I was tearing through page after page it was utterly absorbing.
The only negative point was that I had already seen the film three or four ...more
I found the structure strange. I've heard people describe novels as a series of promises, like tags in computer code, that are best "closed" in reverse order from how they were "opened." This book pretty emphatically doesn't follow that pattern, which made the whole last section feel like it was dangling off of the point it might have ended. It also jumps forward and back in time just once, when a character refers off-handedly to an incident that has yet to be described. So, while I found the wr
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Mar 27, 2008
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I read this book after seeing the movie.
It's paced slowly, very much like the film. This isn't a criticism. The mood of the book follows that of Sheriff Bell, who is more of a central character in the novel. I liked it a lot, but it wasn't life-changing for me. But I do recommend it.
Also, this might sound silly, but the typeface added to the character of the book, I thought.
The lack of quotation marks also contributed to the mood of the book, I guess, but it was sometimes confusing. Does McCarth ...more
It's paced slowly, very much like the film. This isn't a criticism. The mood of the book follows that of Sheriff Bell, who is more of a central character in the novel. I liked it a lot, but it wasn't life-changing for me. But I do recommend it.
Also, this might sound silly, but the typeface added to the character of the book, I thought.
The lack of quotation marks also contributed to the mood of the book, I guess, but it was sometimes confusing. Does McCarth ...more
I think the book should have ended 40 pages sooner that it actually did, but Im interested in seeing how they adapted this to the big screen.
Apr 01, 2008
jess sanford
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Laurie
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Bridget
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Elizabeth
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