"When Llewellyn Moss stumbles upon a grisly murder scene in the desert while hunting antelope near the Rio Grande river, he finds himself at a crossroads. Walk away and return to his job as a welder or take the $2 million dollars left there—after a heroin deal went horribly wrong—and begin a life on the run... The money belongs to men who will stop at nothing to get it back, as Llewellyn very quickly learns... Moss is pursued by Mexican drug traffickers, an ex-Special Forces officer, and by a relentless, cold-blooded killer. Sheriff Bell tries to find and protect Moss and his young wife but as the violence escalates, he realizes he is up against forces he has never seen before and which are brutal beyond his imagining... Moss, who was a sniper in Vietnam, proves a worthy adversary, as tenacious and resourceful as the men who are after him. And in prose as spare and tough as the desert landscape in which his story is set, Cormac McCarthy follows these characters as they move toward an inevitable and violent convergence. Along the way, it is the voice of Sheriff Bell, the moral center of the book, that puts this desperate chase in a larger context of what he sees as a breakdown in the social order of apocalyptic proportions... "--Publisher's website.