No Country for Old Men

<p><b>Savage violence and cruel morality reign in the backwater deserts of Cormac McCarthy's <i>No Country for Old Men</i>, a tale of one man's dark opportunity - and the darker consequences that spiral forth.<br> <br> Adapted for the screen by the Coen Brothers (<i>Fargo</i>, <i>True Grit</i>), winner of four Academy Awards (including Best Picture).</b><br> <br> <b>'A fast, powerful read, steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West' - <i>Financial Times</i></b><br> <br> 1980. Llewelyn Moss, a Vietnam veteran, is hunting antelope near the Rio Grande when he stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything.<br> <br> And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?<br> <br> <b>'It's hard to think of a contemporary writer more worth reading' - <i>Independent</i></b><br> <br> <b>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.</b><br> <br> Praise for Cormac McCarthy:<br> <br> 'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and <i>The Wren, The Wren</i><br> <br> 'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King, author of <i>The Shining</i> and the Dark Tower series<br> <br> 'In presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie Proulx, author of <i>Brokeback Mountain</i></p>