No Country For Old Men

A vivid, thrilling and visceral novel that portrays a time when drug agents and hit men rule the land, reissued to coincide with the UK film release of The Road Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of *, he faces a choice – leave the scene as he found it, or cut the * 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? ‘ No Country for Old Men is a compelling, harrowing, disturbing, sad, endlessly surprising and resonant novel’ Robert Edric, Spectator ‘ No Country for Old Men is a severed head and shoulders over anything else written in America this year’ Independent on Sunday ‘A fast, powerful read, steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West’ Lionel Shriver About The Author: Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten acclaimed novels, most recently The Road . Among his honours are the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for * achievement in American literature.