No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Read January 2018.

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy is one of my all time favourite reads. It is such a powerful book, set in a very bleak future, but you get so tied up in the fate of the two characters that you just have to keep reading until they are safe. I read this book in one sitting, while on holiday in Corfu one year. I have yet to find another of McCarthy's books that speaks to me like The Road did.

No Country For Old Men is a very masculine book and much more like All The Pretty Horses in nature, although set in a modern era. It follows the story of Llewellyn Moss, who comes across a substantial amount of heroin and two million dollars in the desert, surrounded by a whole load of dead drug dealers. Of course, Llewellyn decides to abscond with his treasure, only to be persued by some very nasty characters.

This is not a cheerful story, which you may know if you have seen the film with Javier Bardem, but I actually quite liked it. The Sherriff is my favourite character.