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Streets of Laredo is the second title in the Lonesome Dove series penned by Larry McMurtry. But chronologically, it is the fourth and the final book. It was adapted into a TV miniseries as well. Summary of the Book Divided into three parts - A Salaried Man, The Manburner, and Maria’s Children - this title continues from where Lonesome Dove, the first book in the series had left off. Former Ranger Captain Woodrow F. Call is now a bounty hunter. Ned Brookshire is the "salaried man" of the title, who has been sent to Texas from New York by his chief, railroad business magnate, Colonel Terry, to contract Call's services in catching a bandit called Joey Garza. One of Maria's husbands had sold Joey to the Apache Indians as a slave when he was a little boy. By the time he came back to his family, he was an angry and bitter but quiet boy obsessed with murdering and stealing. Discover more haunting characters and their journeys in this gripping novel. About Larry McMurtry Larry Jeff McMurtry is an American novelist, bookseller, essayist, and screenwriter. Lonesome Dove won him the Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into a TV miniseries. He is also the co-writer of the adapted screenplay for Brokeback Mountain. Some of his standalone novels include the following: Boone’s Lick, Loop Group, Telegraph Days, Anything for Billy, and The Last Kind Words Saloon.