A review by vincederr
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

3.0

The story centers around a satchel of drug money found in the desert. Llewelyn Moss while hunting finds a drug deal gone wrong and satchel of over two million dollars. Enter Anton Chigurgh, a ruthless, cold, coin flipping, killer. The chase is one and Moss attempts to protect his wife and life while Chigurgh hunts him through Texas. In the backdrop old Sheriff Bell contemplates the old times and the changing world. This book is quick and good, but not perfect. McCarthy has no problem with showing us gun fights until the end. The climatic scene of the story what the book has been hurtling towards the whole time happens off page. Why!?!? We fade to black and then find out a main character has been killed, who does that? It was an extremely frustrating decision and quite frankly a bad one. We only need an additional ten to twenty pages to fit the scene in. It’s a good book, but in my opinion far from a masterpiece. It was entertaining and the prose was simple and to the point. At times I wish McCarthy would give us more environmental details. The movie was good but again not a masterpiece.