In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy . The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones.

One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. 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.

As 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.

No Country for Old Men is a triumph.

科马克·麦卡锡Cormac McCarthy（1933— ），美国作家、剧作家。生于美国罗得岛州。一九三七年随家迁至田纳西州诺克斯维尔。一九五一至一九五二年于田纳西大学主修文科。一九五三年，加入美国空军，服役四年。一九五七年重返田纳西大学，期间在学生报纸上发表了两篇短篇小说。一九六一年，麦卡锡举家迁移至芝加哥，在那里写下了他的第一部小说《果园守门人》。

科马克·麦卡锡迄今共写有十多部作品。“边境三部曲”中的《骏马》曾获一九九二年美国国家图书奖和美国评论界图书奖。二○○六年《纽约时报》评选“过去二十五年出版的美国最佳小说”，麦卡锡一九八五年出版的作品《血色子午线》名列第二，此书也被誉为二十世纪最出色的百部英文小说之一。二○○七年，他凭借小说《路》获普利策小说奖。