num_pages: 309
description: Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy.Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim’s burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes how desperately Moss and his young wife need protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex–Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches up and down and across the border, each participant seemingly determined to answer what one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?A harrowing story of a war that society is waging on itself, and an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, No Country for Old Men is a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.
language: English
title: No Country for Old Men
titlecomplete: No Country for Old Men
characters: Llewelyn Moss, Carson Wells, Ed Tom Bell, Dead Dawg, Deputy Wendell, Loretta Bell, Anton Chigurh, Carla Jean Moss
genres: Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, American, Literature, Westerns, Novels
ratings_count: 189076
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: Alfred A. Knopf