Crime · Literary
No Country for Old Men
A hunter in West Texas comes across a failed drug deal and takes a case of money. A relentless killer follows his trail while an ageing sheriff tries to keep up and make sense of it all.
- First published
- 2005
- Pace
- fast
- Length
- medium
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you like a lean, grim crime story with a terrifying antagonist and sparse prose.
Skip this if you want a satisfying resolution or a lot of dialogue punctuation, because McCarthy leaves out quotation marks.
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