Yancey Bannerman's brother, Chuck, was the black sheep of the family. That's why their father, business magnate C. B. Bannerman sent him to Texas on a cattle-buying trip. He figured that Chuck would either come good and buy all the stock needed ... or he'd give in to the lure of wicked women and strong liquor and squander all the money C. B. had entrusted to him. No one expected Chuck to end up bucking a ruthless syndicate and its gun-swift killers. Yancey Bannerman, the top Enforcer for the Governor of Texas, had no great love for his brother, but blood was blood, and when Chuck reached out for help, Yancey couldn't refuse him. But in taking on the syndicate alone, he was putting his own life on the line. And the syndicate gunmen always played for keeps.

Gunpoint: Wade Dallas was a bounty hunter who never took an outlaw in alive if he could help it. Then, one day, he broke his own golden rule … and bought himself a whole mess of trouble. Name on the Dodger: outlaw Slattery is being tracked down by Marshal John Curry and he knew he'd have to run far and fast if he was ever going to escape his bullet-fate.

Out in the Texas badlands, Yancey Bannerman was hunting a ruthless killer named Tallis. But his thoughts were really with his partner, Johnny Cato, who was back in Austin, undergoing multiple operations to fix his ruined gun-arm. If Johnny didn't regain the use of his arm, he was as good as finished.
In the meantime, a young brother and sister facing financial ruin embarked upon an audacious plan to get rich quick. The only trouble was, it meant crossing a psychotic killer known as The Mad Major. Once that happened, there could be no going back. They might have settled their money worries, but there was no telling when the Major and his gang of cutthroats would finally track them down and take their revenge.
Then Fate seemed to throw them a lifeline when Yancey rode into their lives. What they didn't know was that the Major and Yancey were enemies from way back, and the Major had a score to settle with him, as well ...
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A king's ransom in gold had was stolen in a violent bank-raid right in the heart of San Francisco, and the President himself gave orders for Yancey Bannerman to retrieve it. That meant going up against a kill-crazy outlaw named Brad Stewart, and Stewart's own personal bodyguard, a fellow-psychopath called Catlin, who claimed to be the toughest man in Texas. With Yancey's partner, Johnny Cato, on a mission up in Canada, Yancey would have to face the outlaws alone. But that was just fine with him ... because the bank Stewart had robbed was owned by his father, C.B. And Stewart's raid had left C.B. lung-shot and facing almost certain death, while his brother, Chuck, looked certain to face the rest of his days from a wheelchair. For Bannerman the Enforcer it was just about as personal as it could get. And he wouldn't rest until he saw Stewart, Catlin and their entire cutthroat gang dead.]]> Sat, 18 Nov 2017 16:52:05 +0200 https://library.land/kirk-hamilton/561461-bannerman_the_enforcer_43.html https://library.land/kirk-hamilton/561461-bannerman_the_enforcer_43.html

Business tycoon C. B. Bannerman – father of Governor Dukes' top Enforcer Yancey Bannerman – was sick with lung fever. He could stay in the damp, foggy atmosphere of San Francisco and die, or move out to a drier, warmer climate for a while, in hopes that his health might improve. C.B. decided to travel west to Texas, where he had a ranch and the biggest bank in Dallas. But someone was determined that he should never reach his destination. Fortunately, Yancey was around to fight off the bushwhackers, but there was still a mystery to be solved. Who were the would-be killers, and why did they want C.B. dead? In the end there was no shortage of suspects, but to get to the bottom of it all, Yancey needed help. And when Yancey needed help, the gun-swift Johnny Cato and his awesome Manstopper were only a call away ...

"Yancey Bannerman is a homicidal maniac!" said the Texas Ranger. "He's killed two of my men, slugged a couple, and another man was wounded at the stables. He's also stolen horses, not to mention taking hostage the daughter of one of your top-ranking senators. Hell, the man has to be stopped at all costs."
The truth of it was that Governor Dukes' top Enforcer was a sick man, suffering from headaches caused by an old scalp wound. But that didn't change the facts.
Dukes turned his lined and weary face to Yancey's best friend and fellow Enforcer, Johnny Cato.
"Find him, John. I don't care how you do it—but track him down."
Cato nodded soberly. "Yes, sir."
Dukes looked at him steadily for a long moment, then added quietly, "And when you find Yancey, John ... I want you to kill him."

Johnny Cato never could resist a damsel in distress, and that's exactly what the beautiful redhead was ... wasn't she? Johnny's fellow Enforcer, Yancey Bannerman, had his doubts. But Johnny was smitten, and no amount of straight talking could make him see things the way they really were.
Yancey wasn't about to give up on him, though. They'd shared too many tight spots, saved each other's lives too many times, for that. So he kept an eye on developments, and when the lead finally started flying, as he'd known it would, he was right in the thick of it, returning fire.
That, however, was only the start of it.
Duke Early was a career criminal whose entire crooked life had been dedicated to making himself very, very rich and anyone who opposed him very, very dead. Now he had his eye on the biggest score of his life, but to carry it off he needed a gunman. Not just any gunman, though ... the very best that a fortune in stolen gold bullion could buy.
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Governor Dukes aimed to open up the border country to white settlement as a way to stop Mexico from trying to annex the Lone Star State. But to do so, he first had to give the Kiowa Indians a place to live. The Kiowas wanted the lush Pecos Valley. But the cattlemen in that region didn't take kindly to handing over such fine grazing land to the Indians, any more than the miners intended to let them have free run of the gold-rich hills. So they set about doing everything they could to prevent the Governor's top Enforcer, Yancey Bannerman, from fetching Red Dog to Austin to discuss terms.
In the meantime, Yancey's partner, Johnny Cato, was trying to track down a stolen Gatling gun. Somewhere along the corpse-littered trail their paths would cross, and then they'd be in for the fight of their lives against a cold-blooded killer known as ... Edge!

Nothing hurts like betrayal. And when Yancey Bannerman was forced to kill a man he had once called friend, a man who had deliberately led him into an ambush, it left a sour taste in his mouth.
He needed time away from his job as Governor Dukes' top Enforcer ... but ended up riding straight into a whole new passel of trouble.
His name was Nathan King, but everyone called him King Iron because he was tough and gun-handy. He ruled the town of Calico Wells and his lust for land was such that sooner or later he clashed with any would-be settler.
When he tried to ride roughshod over young Will Benbow and Benbow's pregnant wife, Mary, however, Yancey couldn't help himself—he had to buy into it.
That's when the war began.

An administrative oversight meant that Buck Harlan spent more time in prison than he should have. Buck had been fifteen when he was sent away. Now he was a man of thirty, with no experience of the outside world.
To make it up to him, Governor Dukes sent his two top Enforcers, Yancey Bannerman and Johnny Cato, to ride herd on Buck until he adjusted to life as a free man. But Buck had other ideas. Someone out there had sold him and his brothers out and helped himself to the gold they'd stolen from the Confederacy all those years before. His brothers had been executed for the crime, and Buck himself had suffered the worst of punishments behind bars.
Now Buck intended to find that man and make him pay ... in blood.
And there wasn't a single thing the Enforcers could do to stop him!

They came out of the mountains, a tight-riding bunch just like a breath from the past in their blood-stiff, stained and reeking buckskins. They all wore beaver tail caps, and their hair was shoulder-length, their features almost completely hidden behind bushy, matted beards. They were the Buckskinners, and they robbed and often killed to get what they wanted. But now it seemed that they'd gone into the kidnapping business, and the husband of the beautiful woman they'd abducted was very specific about what he wanted Yancey Bannerman and Johnny Cato to do about it. If possible, they were to save his wife. But one way or the other, they were to kill the Buckskinners—every last one of them.

Something crooked was happening in the border town of Condor. Every Texas Ranger sent to find out what it was ended up disappearing, never to be seen again. But Governor Dukes had an idea what was behind it all—stolen guns. And if those guns fell into the wrong hands, it could spell disaster, especially for the Lone Star State.
Where the Rangers had failed in stopping the gun-runners, Dukes' top Enforcers, Yancey Bannerman and Johnny Cato, might just succeed. The old politician could only hope. Because down in Mexico, El Halcon—a bandit masquerading as a patriot—was building an army to take back everything that remained of Old Spain ... including Texas itself!