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Jan 31, 2018RogerDeBlanck rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
No writer has captured the contemporary Southwest with more thunder and aplomb than Cormac McCarthy. His novels depict a vision of an often rugged and violent way of life along the border region of Texas and Mexico, but never has one of his novels taken on a more sinister quality than in No Country For Old Men. The drug war is the center of focus in this suspenseful drama. When Llewelyn Moss finds a briefcase of $2 million at the site of a heroine exchange gone disastrously wrong, he knows that taking the cash will endanger his life. In pursuit to reclaim the money is Anton Chigurh, a psychopath who uses his own maniacal form of justice to deal with those he encounters. With the body count mounting, Sheriff Bell hopes to help Moss while tracking the whereabouts of the ghost-like Chigurh. McCarthy presents a host of characters spanning both sides of the divide between the deranged criminals of the cartels who work like machines in the trafficking of narcotics and the conscientious men of law enforcement who attempt to put a boot in their path. In the end, the drug world’s malignant nature claims the lives of men both good and evil.