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  • Would have been much better and I'd have given it a higher rating if the ending had made sense.

    

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  • No Country for Old Men

  • This story is not a new one. Our unfortunate protagonist stumbles across something he shouldn't, makes a few bad decisions, and finds himself on the run with some very bad guys after him. The thing that sets this one apart is McCarthy's willingness to follow the story to it's logical conclusion wi ... Continue

    This story is not a new one. Our unfortunate protagonist stumbles across something he shouldn't, makes a few bad decisions, and finds himself on the run with some very bad guys after him. The thing that sets this one apart is McCarthy's willingness to follow the story to it's logical conclusion without being afraid to kill off a likable character or the need to wrap everything up in a happy ending. I find Cormac McCarthy books very fast reads for me because I get hooked by the story and this book was no exception.

    

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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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