No Country for Old Men (Playaway Adult Fiction)

McCarthy, Cormac

ISBN 10: 1615745149 ISBN 13: 9781615745142

Publisher: Findaway World, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

‘A lyrical, clear-eyed view of evil, delivering a knock-out punch to postmodernism’ -- Summer reading choice of Dean Koontz in the Daily Express

‘Like the book’s charismatic sociopath, McCarthy’s point-blank prose takes no prisoners.’ -- Sunday Times, Culture

‘McCarthy’s ability to blend action and philosophy remind one of Graham Greene but the style is his magnificent own’ -- Herald

‘McCarthy’s muscular, minimalist style makes for a tense western’ -- Observer

‘Nightmarish and bleak, this is both a meditation on our worst fears and a gripping thriller’ -- Daily Telegraph

‘a lyrical, clear-eyed view of evil, delivering a knockout punch to modernism’ -- Dean Koontz in the Daily Express

Book Description:

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Taking 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 that Moss and his young wife are in desperate need of 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 along 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? 'This is a monster of a book. Cormac McCarthy achieves monumental results by a kind of drip-by-drip process of ruthless simplicity. It will leave you panting and awestruck' Sam Shepard 'Imagine the Coen brothers doing a self-conscious riff on Sam Peckinpah and filming a fast, violent story about a stone-cold killer, a small-town sheriff and an average Joe who stumbles across a leather case filled with more than $2 million in hot drug money' International Herald Tribune 'A profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered novel . . . No Country for Old Men is a page-turner' Washington Post

About this edition

• Publisher: Findaway World
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1615745149
• ISBN 13: 9781615745142
• Binding: Preloaded Digital Audio Player