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Kate Dukes’ life hung in the balance … and her father, the Governor of Texas, held his top Enforcer, Yancey Bannerman, responsible! When the Governor suspended him, Yancey decided – reluctantly – to strike out and go it alone.
A group of small ranchers were hoping to push their herds to a place known as Purgatory, where the best cattle prices were being paid. And it was vital that they make it – because if they didn’t, they could kiss goodbye to their land, which was mortgaged to a robber baron known as Troy Gant.
Gant didn’t want the cattle to reach their destination, and he was prepared to do whatever it took to make sure he got his way.
Yancey might have signed on as a trail boss, but he had to become all fighting-man in a hurry if he was to get the cattle to their destination. Luckily he had his partner, Johnny Cato along for the ride. But still … it was going to be touch and go!

Keith Hetherington
aka Kirk Hamilton, Brett Waring and Hank J. Kirby

Australian writer Keith has worked as television scriptwriter on such Australian TV shows as Homicide, Matlock Police, Division 4, Solo One, The Box, The Spoiler and Chopper Squad.
“I always liked writing little vignettes, trying to describe the action sequences I saw in a film or the Saturday Afternoon Serial at local cinemas,” remembers Keith Hetherington, better-known to Piccadilly Publishing readers as Hank J. Kirby, author of the Bronco Madigan series.
Keith went on to pen hundreds of westerns (the figure varies between 600 and 1000) under the names Kirk Hamilton (including the legendary Bannerman the Enforcer series) and Clay Nash as Brett Waring. Keith also worked as a journalist for the Queensland Health Education Council, writing weekly articles for newspapers on health subjects and radio plays dramatizing same. **