No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

McCarthy's Southwest is lawless and violent, grisly, and terse. It's a unique setting, where Llewellyn Moss and Sheriff Ed Tom Bell struggle to adjust, via its embodiment in the destructive killer Anton Chigurh. This area, the Texas-Mexico border, is called "the country," indicating that what happens here is not exclusive to the Southwest or McCarthy's writings, but a statement on where America is and has been headed for some time. It says that people exaggerate their own abilities, they think they control things that are uncontrollable; we are a place where people may or may not know where their lives are going, but every moment is a choice and each life has a beginning, middle, and end, and sometimes it all comes to an accounting that may be no more than pure chance, like a flip of a coin.