Houston Chronicle About the Author The 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.

He is nothing less than our greatest living writer, and this is a novel that must be read and remembered. It feels like a genuine diagnosis of the postmillennial malady, a scary illumination of the oncoming darkness. The New York Times Book Review Expertly staged and pitilessly lighted. Washington Post A narrative that rips along like hell on wheels race with the devil a stage as big as Texas. Review Quotes Profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered. Look for Cormac McCarthys latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris. 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 mornings headlines. 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. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have be free-fire zones. Book Synopsis From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road comes a profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. About the Book In this modern-day Western-his first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, bestselling Border Trilogy-McCarthy pens a harrowing story of a war that society wages on itself, an enduring meditation of the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies.

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