99. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Llewelyn Moss is out hunting antelope one morning when he stumbles across a drug deal gone bad. Several men are dead, and there is a stash of heroin and more than 2 million dollars in cash. Although he realizes that he will be hunted down if he takes the money, the temptation is too great for Llewelyn. Soon, a drug cartel hires an ex-Special Forces agent, Wells, to track him down, and the psychotic killer Anton Chigurh gets involved in the hunt. An aging sheriff, Sheriff Bell, may be Llewelyn’s only hope for survival in the bloody chase.

A true modern-day Western, this cat and mouse hunt is full of danger and is powerfully written. McCarthy’s dialogue is stripped down to a minimum and is extremely effective at building tension. I listened to it on audio and loved the narration by Tom Stechschulte, who also gave the excellent narration for McCarthy’s The Road.