Streets of Laredo

<p><b>The final novel in Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove quartet, <i>Streets of Laredo</i> is an exhilarating and achingly poignant tale of heroism and friendship, set in the American West.</b><br><br>Captain Woodrow Call, Gus McCrae’s 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 – once Gus’s sweetheart.<br><br>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 – all in search of gunman Joey Garza . . .<br><br><b>'Larry McMurtry, at his best here, is one of the finest American novelists, ever' – <i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br><br><b>Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.</b></p>