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The finale of the "Border Trilogy". John Grady, who sets off towards the unknown at the end of "The Horse", and Billy Parham, who loses everything and wanders alone in "The Crossing", meet in this book, living and working together on a ranch in the southwestern United States near Mexico. Not far from the ranch, the two cities of El Paso in the United States and Juarez in Mexico face each other across the border river, which are also known as "cities on the plains." John Grady fell in love with a beautiful, sickly young prostitute in a Juarez brothel, and was determined to find a way to help her escape from the control of the brothel owner Eduardo and come to the United States to live with him. As his good partner, Billy agreed to help him rescue the girl, although he thought it was not a wise choice like the people around him. However, Eduardo's shrewdness and cruelty exceeded their imagination. John Grady lost his beloved girl, and Billy Parham also lost his good partner.

"No Country for Old Men" is the breakthrough work of literary giant Cormac McCarthy. It tells the story of a Vietnam War veteran and a killer hired by a drug dealer in a volcanic canyon on the U. S.-Mexico border. They start a life-or-death struggle for the ownership of two million four hundred thousand U. S. Dollars. The aging police chief is exhausted mentally and physically while investigating drug crimes and murders. He keeps reminiscing about the past and trying to understand this new world where criminal methods and motives are becoming more and more complicated. "It is not a country of old people. Young people are in each other's arms; birds in the trees - the dying generations - sing their own songs." Cormac McCarthy used Yeats's poem as the title. In that wasteland where the old are homeless, everyone is forced to face the same question: How does a person decide in what order to gradually abandon his life?

The first prize winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle, it has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 21 weeks. The "Border Trilogy", as a representative work of McCarthy's western novels, established him as a master in the modern American literary world. These moving epics that took place in the U. S.-Mexico border area include nightmarish massacres, shocking violence, as well as picturesque pastoral poems and tender requiems. They are called by critics "a symphony of hell and heaven" and "a contemporary classic comparable to the masterpieces of literary superstars Dante, Edgar Allan Poe, Melville, Faulkner, and Steinbeck since the Middle Ages."