Kein Land für alte Männer : no country for old men : Roman

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.From the Trade Paperback edition. Der Hobbyjäger Moss findet in der Wüste drei zerschossene Geländewagen. Darin sitzen Leichen mit einer aufgeplatzten Tüte Heroin. Etwas weiter findet er noch eine Leiche mit einem Koffer mit 2,4 Millionen Dollar. Er nimmt den Koffer mit, kehrt allerdings in der Nacht zurück, um seine Spuren zu vermischen. Dies stellt sich als Fehler heraus, denn die Gangster warten schon auf ihn