Non, ce pays n'est pas pour le vieil homme (Littérature étrangère) (French Edition)

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, 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. Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Texas/Mexico border when he stumbles upon several dead men, a big stash of heroin, and more than two million dollars in cash. He takes off with the money--and the hunter becomes the hunted. A drug cartel hires a former Special Forces agent to track down the loot, and a ruthless killer joins the chase as well. Also looking for Moss is the aging Sheriff Bell, a World War II veteran who may be Moss' only hope for survival Tout près de la frontière entre le Texas et le Mexique. Llewelyn Moss chasse l'antilope et découvre, au creux d'une cuvette volcanique, une scène de carnage. Voitures criblées de balles, cadavres ensanglantés, un Mexicain qui le supplie de lui donner de l'eau. A l'arrière d'une camionnette, des kilos de cocaïne et deux millions de dollars. La tentation est trop forte, Moss part avec l'argent Une chasse à l'homme très violente, racontée de manière sèche et implacable, à la façon des poursuivants qui veulent récupérer leur magot. [SDM]