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.

科馬剋·麥卡锡Cormac McCarthy（1933— ），美國作傢、劇作傢。生於美國羅得島州。一九三七年隨傢遷至田納西州諾剋斯維爾。一九五一至一九五二年於田納西大學主修文科。一九五三年，加入美國空軍，服役四年。一九五七年重返田納西大學，期間在學生報紙上發錶瞭兩篇短篇小說。一九六一年，麥卡锡舉傢遷移至芝加哥，在那裏寫下瞭他的第一部小說《果園守門人》。

科馬剋·麥卡锡迄今共寫有十多部作品。“邊境三部麯”中的《駿馬》曾獲一九九二年美國國傢圖書奬和美國評論界圖書奬。二○○六年《紐約時報》評選“過去二十五年齣版的美國最佳小說”，麥卡锡一九八五年齣版的作品《血色子午綫》名列第二，此書也被譽為二十世紀最齣色的百部英文小說之一。二○○七年，他憑藉小說《路》獲普利策小說奬。