The 12:10 from San Antone

It began with the 12:10 to San Antone, and ended with a pitched battle in Mexico's high sierras. What linked both events was a blood-hungry outlaw called Whip Becker, who was also called the Dragoon Demon after the powerful handguns he used so ruthlessly. What was Becker planning, with a batch of stolen bolt-action Mauser rifles and U.S. Army uniforms? Lester Dukes, the Governor of Texas, had a bad feeling he was trying to engineer a war between Mexico and the United States. And to prove it, he put his top Enforcers, Yancey Bannerman and Johnny Cato, on the case.But by the time they found out what Becker really had in mind, there wasn't a single thing they could do to prevent it! 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.