Book description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Llewelyn 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 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' 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' Financial Times
'It's hard to think of a contemporary writer more worth reading'
Independent
Cormac McCarthy is the author of eight previous novels, and
among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book
Critics Circle Award.
