Comanche Moon, the second book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, follows Rangers Gus and Call in their bitter struggle to protect the advancing West frontier, courageously determined to defend their territory and their way of life from the defiant Comanches.

On the wild Texas frontier where barbarism and civilization come in many forms, Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are pitched into the long, bitter, bloody fighting under the command of Captain Inish Scull.

When Scull’s favourite horse is stolen by the Comanches, he decides to track him down, leaving Gus and Call in charge. However, on their return to Austin, Gus is greeted by the news that his sweetheart is to marry another man and Call finds that the town’s most notorious woman is desperate to settle down with him and become respectable. When Scull’s wealthy wife demands that her errant husband be brought home, with feelings akin to relief, the two men set off once more into the vast, untamed plains . . .

Continue the series set in the American West with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove.

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A sprawling, picaresque novel * The New York Times Book Review *
A monumental work that has few equals in current literature * Library Journal *
McMurtry is one of our finest storytellers, and he's at his best here * People *
Almost impossible to put down . . . McMurtry knows how to deploy his most suspenseful episodes for maximum effect. He treats his large cast of characters with humour and respect * Boston Herald *

Larry McMurtry was the author of more than thirty novels and memoirs, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. He received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Brokeback Mountain. The cinematic treatment of Terms of Endearment swept the boards at the 1984 Academy Awards, winning Oscars in several categories, including Best Picture. McMurtry died in 2021 in Archer City, TX, at the age of 84.