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Navigate the Summary Parts: Part 1: Moss finds the money Part 2: Moss gets chased Part 3: Chigurh flips a coin Part 4: Bell investigates Part 5: Moss goes to Mexico Part 6: Shoot-out with Chigurh Part 7: Bell visits Carla Part 8: Wells talks to Moss Part 9: Chigurh talks to Wells Part 10: Moss returns to U.S. Part 11: Moss meets a girl Part 12: Bell catches up Part 13: Chigurh flips a coin Part 14: Bell visits his uncle Part 15: Conclusion

No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy:
Pages 121 - 140

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(Brought to you by jat impatientreader.com)  The gunfight in the streets continues, with Chigurh shooting three others before he leaves in his car.

The next scene has Bell thinking about how his family came from Georgia, and how sometimes a story can become the reality, and how sometimes you just can't believe what is being told, whether its from the family or from the newspaper.

Bell drives to Odessa to visit Moss' wife. They go to the neighborhood cafe and talk about what Moss did. She's very reluctant to say anything about him, but the sheriff is insistent. Although she doesn't want to believe that he's in trouble, Bell tries to convince her that he's in a very bad situation, and that the people whose money he took will not rest until he's dead.

She's defiant though, and refuses to say she'll talk to him or anything. She ends by telling Bell that she had a dream where she saw herself meeting him while she was working at Wal-Mart, and it happened just as she dreamed it would. In return, he tells her that he's been entrusted to the safety of the people in his jurisdiction, and that he would die for them. She doesn't believe it, but he tells her that if he can live with the fact that Moss might end up dead, she's going to have to live with it as well.

Bell later gets a call from the sheriff in Eagle Pass. He goes out later to meet him, and they survey the scene of the gunfight. Bell walks around and notices a blood trail leading down the street. They talk about the night clerk, and how he was killed, but not by a bullet.

Bell later goes back home, and he and his wife have dinner. They talk about what's been happening, and how it's not going to end until a bigger organization gets involved. She tells Bell he'd better make it through the case, and he says he will. She asks him if he thinks Moss will send for his wife, and he says he'd be a fool if he didn't.

In the next scene, a man named Wells goes up the elevator of a skyscraper in Houston.
He meets up with a man on the 17th floor, who asks him about Chigurh. Wells says he knows him, and the man says that Chigurh has gone rogue and that they are missing a lot of product. The man gives Wells a credit card with which to buy whatever he needs, up to twelve hundred dollars a day. Wells is evidently a hit man. The man asks him again how well he knows Chigurh.

Characters introduced
Ed Tom - Sheriff of Eagle Pass
Wells - hit man employed by a cartel in Houston to find Chigurh.
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