{"product_id":"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Cormac McCarthy","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2006-07-11","offer_id":44915113722111,"sku":"9780375706677","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_684bf9ef-3eec-475f-a587-b3b96f1523d5.jpg?v=1739647485","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780375706677","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}