This country is not for the old

An unconventional "noir" detective story from the Texas-Mexico border.

By a stroke of luck, a man finds a briefcase in the desert containing a fairytale amount of cash—the result of a drug gang war. From that moment on, he and his wife, who goes into hiding at her mother's, are pursued by the man the money belonged to. On the trail of all three is a rather stoic sheriff—he wants to save the lives of the first two and catch the third.

This unconventional "noir" detective story from the Texas-Mexico border is filled with the police officer's meditations on love, blood, and civic duty. Cormac McCarthy is often described as one of the darkest critics of the current state of American society.

The Coen brothers directed a film of the same name based on the novel, which won 2 Golden Globes and 4 Oscars, including for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Cormac McCarthy (born 20 July 1933)

An American writer and screenwriter whose works are classified as Western, Southern Gothic, or post-apocalyptic. Literary critic Harold Bloom named him one of the four most important American novelists of our time (along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth). Reviewers often compare McCarthy to William Faulkner. In 2007, he received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Road. In 2008, the film adaptation of his novel No Country for Old Men (2005) won four Oscars. In 1992, he also received the National Book Award for his novel All the Pretty Horses, the first part of the Border Trilogy.