Bannerman the Enforcer 42

Big John Early was getting married, and he wanted Yancey Bannerman to act as his best man. The bride-to-be was Conchita Morales, beautiful daughter of a Mexican cattle baron. Things looked good for Big John.

But the next time Yancey and his saddle partner Johnny Cato rode into Del Rio, where Big John was sheriff, they found a town gone wild, and Big John himself little more than a washed-up drunk. Something bad had happened in the intervening weeks, and the two Enforcers were determined to find out exactly what. But first they had to sober John Early up … and drunk or sober, Big John was now a dangerous man to be around.

That left them with only one option, and it was a whole lot tougher than it sounded. They had to tame the tall hombre!

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.