No Country for Old Men Author: Cormac McCarthy Publisher: Henan Literature and Art Publishing House

Introduction
In 1980, the Reagan administration had just come to power in the United States, and a large amount of wealth had been accumulated, enough to buy the entire country. The hippie movement that flourished in the 1960s and 1970s had receded, leaving almost no trace except for the general obsession with drugs. The modern crime wave driven by drug profits ruthlessly destroyed the last moral relics of this country. On the vast US-Mexico border, a hunter living in a motel and a killer hired by a drug dealer started a life-and-death struggle for the ownership of 2.4 million US dollars. The old sheriff, who was getting older, was exhausted while investigating drug crimes and murders. He kept recalling the past and trying to understand this new world where criminal methods and motives were becoming more and more confusing.
The country they once owned has long been shattered. "Everything is a sign and a miracle, but it can't tell you how the world has become like this. It can't tell you what the world will become." Everything has been destined since the moment capital began to accumulate, and everyone is rushing to his own destiny; nothing can be reversed.
Unlike traditional crime novels, McCarthy is not concerned with how justice defined by humans works, but how the ruthless time will rule us. He points the gun directly at the most essential and darkest core of the American dream: the looted spoils will belong to us forever; history allows us to get away with nothing.
The so-called destiny is the judgment and justice that time imposes on everyone in the name of history - "Every step you take is eternal. You can't make it disappear. Not even a single step."
"It is not a country for old people. The young are in each other's arms; the birds in the trees - the dying generations - sing their own songs." Cormac McCarthy used Yeats's poem as the title. In that wasteland where no one can go, everyone is forced to face the same problem: how does a person decide in what order to gradually abandon his or her life?
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...The fiery story is deeply engraved in the readers' hearts like a knife licked by a campfire. McCarthy is arguably the greatest living writer, and No Country for Old Men must be read and remembered.