No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy

eBook - 2007

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed 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...

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Published
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Cormac McCarthy
Online Access
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size1 GB
ISBN9780307390530
Release Date11/29/2007
Kindle Book
ASINB000WJSB4Q
Release Date11/29/2007
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780307390530
Release Date11/29/2007