He searches for the 'last man standing' and finds him dead some distance off with a satchel containing $2.4 million in cash. Moss responds that he does not have any and searches the rest of the vehicles, finding a truck full of heroin. In 1980, while hunting pronghorns, Llewelyn Moss stumbles across the aftermath of a drug deal gone awry that has left everyone dead, save a sole badly wounded Mexican who pleads with Moss for water. The plot follows the interweaving paths of the three central characters (Llewelyn Moss, Anton Chigurh, and Ed Tom Bell) set in motion by events related to a drug deal gone bad near the Mexican–American border in remote Terrell County in south-west Texas. The title of the novel comes from the first line of the 1926 poem ' Sailing to Byzantium' by W.

The book was adapted into the 2007 film No Country for Old Men, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Owing to the novel's origins as a screenplay, the novel has a simple writing style different from other Cormac McCarthy novels. The story occurs in the vicinity of the Mexico–United States border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert back country. Meanwhile, the laconic Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart.No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, who had originally written the story as a screenplay. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in.

This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himself. In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong.

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