Llewelyn Moss finds a drug deal gone wrong in the desert and takes the money, and Anton Chigurh, one of the most terrifying figures in American fiction, comes after him with a cattle gun. McCarthy wrote this in lean, precise sentences, mostly dialogue, and the violence is sudden and absolute. Sheriff Bell narrates between chapters, aging, bewildered by what his country has become. The novel became a Coen Brothers film; the book is darker still. The country has no place for old men. It may have no place for anyone. The coin is in the air.