No Country for Old Men

Name: No Country for Old Men
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.25 (122 reviews)
Author: Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 9781436101813

Author: Cormac McCarthy

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 7 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/22/2005

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. 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. 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. 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny on September 24, 2014

So are we gonna talk about No Country For Old Men, he said. Why not, she replied. Then we gotta do it like McCarthy, he said. Short sentences. Southern dialect. No punctuation. I can drop the punctuation, she said. But I can't do Southern. You can try. Well then I caint. That good enough for you? Youre tr......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on January 20, 2018

This is officially the 1000th review I’ve written on Goodreads, and I wanted to make sure that the book would fit the occasion so that’s why I decided to re-read this one. What better novel could I choose than this heartwarming tale of human kindness from one of the most optimistic men on the planet......more

Goodreads review by Baba on June 16, 2024

Close to the American-Mexican border, young game hunter Moss comes across the scene of a drug deal gone wrong and finds himself alone in the desert with a suitcase containing a life-changing amount of money, so he takes it; as he works his way back to his car he is shot at; thus begins the hunting o......more

Goodreads review by Michael on June 04, 2017

Coac McCartney's No Country for Old Men is a quick but intense read. For those that saw the Cohen brothers' movie first (as I did years ago), the book is as bleak and violent as the movie was. Chigurh is probably up there with The Joker as one of the most evil, conscience-free bad guys in literature......more