Tame the Tall Hombre

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! Kirk Hamilton is best known as Keith Hetherington who has penned hundreds of westerns (the figure varies between 600 and 1000) under the names Hank J Kirby and 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 dramatising same. Bannerman the Enforcer, in which a special task-force answerable only to the Governor of Texas is sent on all kinds of do-or-die missions.