Bannerman the Enforcer 11

by Kirk Hamilton

  Suddenly the girl’s rifle whiplashed and, an instant later, the whole river seemed to erupt and bulge upwards with a deafening roar, flinging logs and water and gravel ... and Wolf Duane ... high into the air.

  The girl’s eyes went up, following the bloody arc of the man’s shattered body and then travelled down as it dropped back into the boiling, muddy river with the tangle of freed logs.

  There was a look of satisfaction on her face.

  Ears ringing, Yancey got to his feet and stumbled back to where his frightened sorrel stood. He spoke to it quietly, soothingly, stroking its quivering neck. The Indian girl threw him an impassive look, then sheathed her rifle and rode back down the river trail.

  Turning, Yancey clung to the sorrel’s saddlehorn and was surprised to see, in the distance, a lone horse walking out of the timber with two men riding it. He recognized the man in the saddle as Cato and the sagging figure behind had to be Senator Jonas Locke. Yancey didn’t know it, but it was the horse of the man Duane had shot at the foot of the butte trail.

  Weak-kneed, Yancey pushed away from his horse and stumbled forward to his old saddle pard, a grin already creasing his weather-scarred features.

  BANNERMAN 11: DAY OF THE WOLF

  By Kirk Hamilton

  First Published by The Cleveland Publishing Pty Ltd

  Copyright © Cleveland Publishing Co. Pty Ltd, New South Wales, Australia

  First Smashwords Edition: October 2017

  Names, characters and incidents in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information or storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the author, except where permitted by law.

  This is a Piccadilly Publishing Book

  Series Editor: Ben Bridges

  Text © Piccadilly Publishing

  Published by Arrangement with The Cleveland Publishing Pty Ltd.

  About the Author

  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.

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