The story takes place in 1980 in Rio Grande, Texas and western Mexico. Levi Ryan Moss, a poor former Vietnam War veteran, accidentally found several bodies while hunting, as well as a large amount of heroin and a large amount of cash used to trade drugs. The victims were gangsters who died at gunpoint in the crossfire. Raylan immediately decided to take home the huge drug deal money left at the gunfight scene and hide it. In the evening, the nervous Lelun returned to the trading place. I don't want to. His behavior led to his own death. At this time, the gang leader sent cold-blooded killer Anton Kuiper, the old police chief Ed Bell and Raylan to launch a killing trip chasing each other. In this novel, Bell's rambling narration outside the story interrupts the reader's reading, such as changing the scene. At the same time, McCarthy also expressed his thoughts on life, fate and the decline of western civilization through Bell's mouth. For McCarthy's fast-paced novels, the rambling narration is enough to slow down the rhythm of the story, thus controlling the rhythm of the plot development as a whole.