No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by Cormac McCarthy, which he initially wrote as a screenplay. He included a typically "Coenesk brothers" inscrutible bad guy who embodies the chaos and randomness of the universe. The story occurs in the vicinity of the Mexico–United States border in 1980. It all revolves around an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert back country. Owing to the novel's origins as a screenplay, the novel has a simple writing style that differs from McCarthy's other novels. No Country for Old Men was adapted into a 2007 Coen brothers film of the same name. It won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
