When a hit man is sent to track him down you sense Moss and his wife might end up with the money but Chigurh is too good for them both and ends up getting the money and a couple more corpses. He is ruthless, effective and determined not only to track down the money but also dish out his own flavour of revenge on the way.
Moss makes the mistake of going back that night to take him some and from that moment until his death is being tracked by Chigurh and the Mexican drug dealers.Ĭhigurh is a strange character that has no problem killing someone on the flip of a coin not only because he enjoys it but also because it appeals to his moral code. But as he is leaving one of the dying men asks for water. Moss is one of the characters you most empathise with because the Vietnam veteran stumbles across a scene of carnage in the desert and finds a briefcase with $2.4m, which he takes. As the bodies stack up he starts to despair not just about this case but about the way things are heading in general. The absence of quote marks, some problems working out as a result who is speaking as well as the descriptive technique means it is not until about page 100 that you feel settled and able to navigate through the rest of the novel.īy then the bodies have already started piling up and the three main characters are becoming clear – the sheriff Bell, the psycho Chigurh and the opportunist Moss – and you are starting to get drawn in to a story that has several directions it could head in.Įach chapter is prefaced with an italic dialogue that are the thoughts of Sheriff Bell who is clearly a very wise man but struggling to keep up with the cross-border trade in drugs and death.
The fact is that the book dies take a while to get going is not because of the reasons you might initially thing but is connected to the style. But his recommendation comes with a caveat that the first 100 pages might be difficult going and you have to stick with it. A good friend of mine enthuses about Cormac McCarthy and tells everyone that he meets to start reading his books.
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