More on New Cormac

[Richard Romeo]

>From cormac web site-this from Knopf (alas not the New Orleans novel)

 

Set along a bloody frontier in our own time, this is Cormac McCarthy's
first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed,
bestselling Border Trilogy.

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men
shot dead, a load of heroin, and over two million in cash. Packing the
money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men
are murdered does a victim's burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the
carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes that Moss and his young
wife are in desperate need of protection. One party in the failed
transaction hires an ex-Special Forces officer to defend his interests
against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men
accustomed to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches
along and across the border, each participant seemingly determined to
answer what one asks another: How does a man decide in what order to
abandon his life?

A harrowing story of a war society wages on itself, an enduring
meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and
shape destinies, and a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.

 

 

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