No Country for Old Men

by Cormac Mc Carthy (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $3.36

  Llewlyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? No Country for Old Men is a compelling, harrowing, disturbing, sad, endlessly surprising and resonant novel - Robert Edric, Spectator . No Country for Old Men is a severed head and shoulders over anything else written in America this year - Independent on Sunday . A Western thriller with a racy plot and punchy dialogue, perfect for a lazy Sunday - Sarah Emily Miano, The Times . [An] utterly absorbing, chilling tale...One of the most sinister characters in modern American fiction - Herald . A fast, powerful read, steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West - Lionel Shriver, Financial Times .