No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by author Cormac McCarthy. Set in West Texas in 1980, the story concerns an illicit drug deal gone wrong in a remote desert location. The title comes from the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats. The book was adapted into the 2007 film bearing the same name which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
William J. Cobb, in a review published in the Houston Chronicle characterizes McCarthy as "our greatest living writer" and describes the book as "a heated story that brands the reader's mind as if seared by a knife heated upon campfire flames."
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