![]() ![]() 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. Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy. Some urge to see if he wrote better stories when he wasn't dipping his toe in an unfamiliar genre. ![]() I was not impressed.īut for some reason, I felt like coming back for more. My first encounter with Cormac McCarthy was The Road. Inverarity One-line summary: An implacable modern-day Western that strews words like bodies across the page. ![]()
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