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No Country for Old Men by McCarthy, Cormac is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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SUMMARY: In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, 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, 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 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. SUMMARY: 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

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
McCarthy, Cormac
Publisher
Lisa's E-Book Collection
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780330511216
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller
Rating
4.13 / 5 (792 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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