Cormac McCarthy · 2005 · thriller

Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel, a lean and brutal chase across the Texas-Mexico borderlands. When Llewelyn Moss takes two million dollars from a drug deal gone wrong in the desert, he sets the implacable killer Anton Chigurh on his trail and drags Sheriff Ed Tom Bell into a pursuit across West Texas and the Rio Grande. The route runs the hard country of the Trans-Pecos, from the desert to the border and west toward El Paso.

1. 1
   The Desert

   Out hunting near the Rio Grande, the welder Llewelyn Moss stumbles on a drug deal gone wrong, the bodies, the heroin, and a case holding two million dollars. He takes the money.

2. 2
   Sanderson

   He returns to his trailer in Sanderson, but a fatal pang of conscience sends him back to the desert in the night, and from then on the killer Anton Chigurh is on his trail.

3. 3
   Eagle Pass

   The chase reaches the border at Eagle Pass, where a motel shootout leaves Moss wounded and running for the river.

4. 4
   Piedras Negras

   He crosses the bridge into Piedras Negras in Mexico to lie low and heal, the money hidden, the hunter still coming.

5. 5
   El Paso

   Heading west to meet his wife, Moss is run down at last, while old Sheriff Bell, always a step behind, is left to reckon with a violence he no longer understands.