bettyehollands
Written on Jan 4, 2015
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 that Moss and his young wife are in desperate need of 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 along 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 wages on itself, an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, and a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.
- ISBN10 1405613947
- ISBN13 9781405613941
- Publish Date 3 July 2005 (first published 1 July 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 February 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher AudioGO Limited
- Imprint BBC Audiobooks Ltd
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Language English
Reviews
jamiereadthis
Written on Jun 3, 2010
Also, it doubled my respect for the Coen brothers’ film, how closely they stuck to McCarthy’s roadmap. I have to say, though, I thought the Chigurgh found here— more terrifyingly “normal,” less immediately unhinged— was on the whole much more effective and disturbing. Which, if you know what I’m talking about... says a lot.