In 1980 southwest Texas, Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles across several dead men, a bunch of heroin and $2.4 million in cash. Seven years after Cities of the Plain brought his acclaimed Border Trilogy to a close, McCarthy returns with a mesmerizing modern-day western. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris. 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.Īs Moss tries to evade his pursuers-in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives-McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel ( The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy.
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