num_pages: 309
description: Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN 9780375706677In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, the setting of his 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, 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.
language: English
title: No Country for Old Men
titlecomplete: No Country for Old Men
characters: Carson Wells, Carla Jean Moss, Deputy Wendell, Anton Chigurh, Ed Tom Bell, Llewelyn Moss, Loretta Bell, Dead Dawg
genres: American, Thriller, Novels, Crime, Literature, Classics, Mystery, Westerns, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 188990
places: Terrell County, Texas, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Hammett Prize, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Audie Award
category: Audiobook Adaptation, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Exclusive Books Boeke Prize, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Falcon Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group