““How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
Llewellyn Moss, discovers a scene of carnage whilst out tracking deer – dead Mexican’s, a truck load of heroin and a case containing two million dollars.
Moss knows if he takes the money he will change the course of his life and that of his nineteen year of wife forever, but he doesn’t know if the change will be for the better or for the worse. They could leave their trailer park home and live the life they have only ever dreamed about but Moss also knows that the men who own the two million dollars will never quit looking for them.
Ed Tom Bell, the Country Sheriff comes across the crime scene a few days later and on finding Llewellyn’s truck he at once knows what trouble has been invited upon him and Carla Jean.
Bell is a sheriff from the old school and the more he delves into the trail of unusual murders within the county in his search for Moss, the harder he finds it to make sense of this new order of drugs and violence.
Add a wild card psychopath into the mix and you have a very taut thriller. There is neither rhyme nor reason to Anton Chigurh. He is a well spoken man of principles, but they are principles of this own making. He’ll never stop hunting those who have ‘inconvenienced’ him, and he’ll never make a deal unless you can call it with a coin toss. It will take more than a hick Sheriff to understand him and Bell knows this and begins to question his own abilities. Knowing he can’t change the way the world is turning he turns his thoughts to retirement even though he is burdened by the guilt that he is actually running away from his responsibilities.
Short nappy sentences, dark and witty dialogue. No wasted words, just sheer gritty storytelling.
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