No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy

Nov 2007 · Sold by Vintage

About this ebook

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the 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.

Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Ratings and reviews

As Cormac McCarthy goes, this story is one of his more accessible tomes. Yet we should not equate accessibility with a lack of quality. If you loved the Academy Award winning film, you'll love the book as well. As all of McCarthy's books, his style is unmistakable, and his substance undeniable.

I can't quite put my finger on McCarthy's style. I have enjoyed several of his works, and No Country for Old Men didn't disappoint. His subject matter tends to send me into a nostalgic spiral where I sometimes question my personal history and the person I've become. For me, reading McCarthy is like an existential crisis ... but there's that little spark of promise in there that tells me everything will be okay, even when it's not.

I thought it was better to read the actually book. The ebook version seems different somehow.. but overall one of my favorite books ever. Not easy to follow sometimes like his other books cause theyre so bleak but its amazing if you have the taste for that kinda book. Not for everyone, but perfect for the right sort of reader :)

About the author

The novels of the American writer, CORMAC McCARTHY, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men—the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. He died in 2023.