

The plot follows the interweaving paths of the three central characters (Llewelyn Moss, Anton Chigurh, and Ed Tom Bell) set in motion by events related to a drug deal gone bad near the Mexican–American border in remote Terrell County in south-west Texas. The title of the novel comes from the first line of the 1926 poem " Sailing to Byzantium" by W. The book was adapted into a 2007 Coen brothers film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Owing to the novel's origins as a screenplay, the novel has a simple writing style different from other Cormac McCarthy novels. The story occurs in the vicinity of the Mexico–United States border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert back country. No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, who had originally written the story as a screenplay.
