Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Texas/Mexico border when he stumbles upon several dead men, a big stash of heroin, and more than two million dollars in cash. He takes off with the money--and the hunter becomes the hunted. A drug cartel hires a former Special Forces agent to track down the loot, and a ruthless killer joins the chase as well. Also looking for Moss is the aging Sheriff Bell, a World War II veteran who may be Moss' only hope for survival.
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 ...
Their approach is extended by Scott Covell, who deems Chigurh a postmodern Western nemesis. Covell explores Chigurh's villainous cinematic and literary predecessors, measuring his credentials against Western badmen and Blood Meridian's ...
Yeah , we saw a lot of Tarzan movies and Steve Reeves muscle movies . What was that Tarzan rip - off with Johnny Sheffield ? JOEL : Bomba the Jungle Boy . What's - his - name used to introduce those . ETHAN : Andy Devine .
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.
In this taut, chilling novel from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road, Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.
Set in Graniteville, South Carolina, The Gardener's Son is the tale of two families: the wealthy Greggs, who own and operate the local cotton mill, and the McEvoys, a family of mill workers beset by misfortune.
The drama evokes the subtleties of Grecian tragedy with the mastery of character, plot, and pathos that distinguishes the acclaimed fiction of this recent National Book Award winner.
Bolger's deliberate foregrounding of the unreliability of narrative is mirrored in Doyle's narrator Henry Smart . A Star Called Henry is part of an intended trilogy called The Last Roundup and , in it and its sequel Oh Play That Thing ...
The Crossing is the story of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham, who sets off on a perilous journey across the mountains of Mexico, accompanied only by a lone wolf.
And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte’s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right.