{"product_id":"no-country-for-old-men-9780375706677","title":"No Country for Old Men","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Passenger \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eand the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel \u003ci\u003eThe Road \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a \"profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered\" novel (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed \u003ci\u003eBorder Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo Country for Old Men\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLook for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eStella Maris\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe novels of the American writer, CORMAC McCARTHY, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include \u003ci\u003eAll the Pretty Horses, The Road, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo Country for Old Men--\u003c\/i\u003ethe latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHe died in 2023.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50569006121234,"sku":"9780375706677","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_094e4c20-d547-4083-ae95-a6c9cc2b5495.jpg?v=1731953640","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/no-country-for-old-men-9780375706677","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}