Liewlyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice- leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer t question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

普利策小说奖得主科马克·麦卡锡的转型之作。故事发生在上世纪80年代得克萨斯州西南部的美墨边境，围绕三个人物（莫斯、苏格和贝尔）展开。猎手莫斯是一个越战老兵，一次打猎时发现了一个枪战遗迹，所有人都死了，只剩下一车海洛因和2400万美元现金。莫斯带走了钱，却因此被受雇追回这笔钱的杀手苏格追杀。警探贝尔一直为自己在二战时的行为所困扰，人到中年，他试图弥补21岁时犯下的错误，因此在调查毒品犯罪时，他想尽办法用法律保护莫斯和他年轻的妻子。该书于2007年被翻拍成电影，并获得第80届奥斯卡奖的四项重量级大奖。