20 Minutes into the Past: The book is set in the 1980s but was released in 2005.The book would be adapted into a film in 2007, written and directed by The Coen Brothers. and it's no longer just the money he's after. Chigurh is a man willing to do absolutely anything - to " follow a supreme act of will," as he puts it - in order to achieve his aims. A cynical old sheriff, Ed Tom Bell, is determined to prove that there's still a place for justice in an otherwise unfair and cruel world as he sets out to find Moss and protect him from the owners of the money.īut for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, and the men behind the deal have sent ruthless hitman Anton Chigurh to retrieve the briefcase. When rugged Vietnam veteran Llewelyn Moss finds the horrific aftermath of a botched drug deal and takes a suitcase filled with money, he sets in motion a spiral of violence beyond his control or comprehension.
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.No Country for Old Men is a 2005 neo-Western thriller novel by Cormac McCarthy, a grizzled old man who refuses to discuss his books beyond their often disturbing content. 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. 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. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash.
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