Savage violence and cruel morality reign in the backwater deserts of Cormac McCarthy s ninth novel No Country for Old Men, a tale of one man s dark opportunity ? and the darker consequences that spiral forth.
Adapted for the screen by the Coen Brothers (Fargo, True Grit), winner of four Academy Awards (including Best Picture). A fast, powerful read, steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West ? Financial Times1980. Llewelyn Moss, a Vietnam veteran, is hunting antelope near the Rio Grande when he 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?