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 gi... » 

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 take s the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence tha t not even the law in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers in particular a myste rious mastermind who flips coins for human lives McCarthy simultaneous ly strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to e ncompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary a s this mornings headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph. «