After a brutal shootout that spills across the Mexican border and leaves both Moss and Chigurh wounded, Moss recovers at a Mexican hospital while Chigurh patches himself up in a hotel room with stolen supplies. Carson Wells, a rival hitman and ex- Special Forces officer who is familiar with Chigurh, is also on the trail of the stolen money. Chigurh is a ruthless, calculating killer whose weapons of choice are a silenced shotgun and a captive bolt pistol (called a "stungun" in the text), the latter of which he uses for close kills and to blow out cylinder locks. Complicating things is the arrival of Anton Chigurh, a hitman hired to recover the money. He makes it his quest to resolve the case and save Moss. Now in his late 50s, Bell has spent most of his life attempting to make up for the incident when he was a 21-year-old soldier. Bell is haunted by his actions in World War II, leaving his incapacitated unit to die (having had no practical alternative), for which he received a Bronze Star. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell investigates the drug crime while trying to protect Moss and his young wife, with the aid of other law enforcement. After escaping from his pursuers, Moss sends his wife, Carla Jean, to her grandmother in Odessa, Texas, while he leaves his home with the money. This is the beginning of a hunt for Moss that stretches for most of the remaining novel. After being seen, he tries to run, which sparks a tense chase through a desert valley.
When Moss looks back to his truck parked on the ridge overlooking the valley, another truck is there. Later, however, feeling remorse for leaving the wounded man and simultaneously desiring to know more of the circumstances surrounding the deal gone wrong and the money, he returns to the scene with a jug of water, only to find that the wounded man had since been shot and killed. He searches for the "last man standing" and finds him dead some distance off under a tree with a satchel containing $2.4 million in cash.
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Moss responds that he does not have any and searches the rest of the vehicles, finding a truck full of heroin. In 1980, while hunting pronghorns, Llewelyn Moss stumbles across the aftermath of a drug deal gone awry that has left everyone dead, save a sole badly wounded Mexican who pleads with Moss for water. The plot follows the interweaving paths of the three central characters (Llewelyn Moss, Anton Chigurh, and Ed Tom Bell) set in motion by events related to a drug deal gone bad near the Mexican–American border in remote Terrell County in south-west Texas. The title of the novel comes from the first line of the 1926 poem " Sailing to Byzantium" by W.
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