No Country for Old Men
Ranked #8 in Western, Ranked #51 in Conversation — see more rankings.
In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, the 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, 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... more
One day, 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... more
Rankings by Category
No Country for Old Men is ranked in the following categories:
- #70 in 21st Century
- #98 in American
- #89 in American Literature
- #56 in Americana
- #90 in Crime
- #82 in Drugs
- #65 in Evil
- #59 in Mexico
- #100 in Modern Fiction
- #97 in Page-Turner
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