Len Cowgill, adult book buyer, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey, Mich.:
I can't wait to start handselling Cormac McCarthy's terrific new book, No Country for Old Men [Random House, July], his first book in seven years. He's an amazing writer, and his newest novel is very violent, but beautifully written for maximum tension. The novel is set in the 1980s and follows three men. A young Vietnam vet out hunting comes across a drug-related crime scene where everyone is dead. He finds a bag of money and takes it. A relentless, psychopathic man trailing the bag finds out he took it. The third character is the moral center of the book, a local sheriff who is trying to find both of them. McCarthy is one of the best living American writers we have, and he doesn't disappoint.
