In Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men the main character who carries out the absolutely worst and bloodiest crimes rides off into the sunset albeit with a broken arm. We never find out what happens to him. Rather than tie off all the plots he goes for mood and a larger message. It leaves the reader with a tremendous sense of unease.
Elmore Leonard's formula is to have all the bad guys kill each other off. Not so McCarthy.
Telling you the ending will not lessen the book's impact. It's an amazingly wonderful one. He's the Faulkner of the Texas-Mexico area. His body of work is absolutely brilliant.
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