Larry McMurtry Streets of Laredo Paperback Book

The final novel in Larry McMurtry&rsquos Lonesome Dove quartet, Streets of Laredo is an exhilarating and achingly poignant tale of heroism and friendship, set in the American West. Captain Woodrow Call, Gus McCrae&rsquos old partner, once a youthful Texas Ranger, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena &ndash once Gus&rsquos sweetheart. Their long, perilous chase leads them across the last wild stretches of the West into a hellhole known as Crow Town and, finally, deep into the vast, relentless plains of the Texas frontier &ndash all in search of gunman Joey Garza . . .&#39Larry McMurtry, at his best here, is one of the finest American novelists, ever&#39 &ndash Los Angeles TimesNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature. | Larry McMurtry Streets of Laredo Paperback Book