Piccadilly Publishing, the Home of Great Western Fiction, celebrates Christmas 2016 by issuing no less than SIX new western series to its line-up ... LARRY AND STRETCH 1: DRIFT!BIG JIM 1: THE NIGHT McLENNAN DIEDDRIFTER 1: SAVAGEMcALLISTER 1: McALLIST...
Twenty one thousand dollars ... to get their hands on it, Reno Slade and his gang killed two innocent people and then high-tailed it into the Indian Territory. But they hadn’t reckoned on Sven Johansen’s daughter Anya, who would stop at nothing t...
The cold-blooded murder of rancher Abe Summers led to a surprising discovery -- a long-lost treasure of Spanish reà ls, escudos, doubloons and pieces of eight!Abe’s land-grabbing neighbour, Nathan Cross, wanted that treasure all to himself, and was...
Twenty years earlier, Governor Lester Dukes had helped found the town of Rifle Ridge, Texas. The move had had him popular with many. but a hated enemy to others. Along the way, Dukes had punished the wealthy ranchers who had grabbed millions of...
Yancey Bannerman and Johnny Cato rode into Beaumont undercover, posing as a couple of trail-wolves fresh off a cattle drive and ready to howl. In reality, their mission was to find a mysterious mulatto whore who had been instrumental in the death of ...
Few men deserved a bullet more than the man called Sundance. But his killer unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that few could have foreseen. A man named Brandon had been about to hire Sundance for a mystery job. When he got wind of it, Texas...
It all started with a very special gift … a gold-plated, silver-inlaid Commemorative rifle, specially made on the express orders of the Winchester Family for presentation to Lester Dukes, Governor of Texas. But when the rifle was stolen, Yancey Ban...
When Governor Dukes suffered his worst heart attack yet, the buzzards began to gather. It seemed like everyone wanted to seize power and run Texas their way, from political opponents to gunnies with their own personal scores to settle.Keeping the gov...
The Governor of Texas had entrusted the safety of Senator Jonas Locke to his No 2 Enforcer, Johnny Cato. The mission proved to be more boring than anything else … until that last night, when Locke decided to go on a bender in the cowboy capital, Ch...
It promised to be the biggest land swindle in the history of Texas … so Governor Lester Dukes sent his top Enforcer, Yancey Bannerman, to find the crook behind it and bring him to justice. But few men knew the swindler’s true identity, and they w...
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 St...
Johnny Cato followed a vengeance trail with one single purpose in mind -- to kill the outlaw who’d brought his entire world crashing down around his ears. It turned the deadly custom-built handgun/shotgun they called the Manstopper into a reckless ...
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 m...
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. Bu...
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 ...
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 se...
Governor Dukes’ top enforcer, Yancey Bannerman, was called home to San Francisco to solve a tricky situation his wayward brother Chuck had created … and ‘tricky’ was putting it mildly. If it wasn’t solved quickly—n...
Yancey Bannerman – wanted for murder!Now he’s on the run, pursued not only by the Texas Rangers but also by his fellow Enforcers … including Johnny Cato.But Yancey can’t afford to be caught. He’s already in a desperate r...
Someone was out to kill the Governor of Texas, and this time they came mighty close to doing just that. Yancey Bannerman, the Governor’s top Enforcer was right beside him when it happened, and Yancey admired no man more than his boss. From that...
When Yancey Bannerman killed the Leverett boys, Wade and Hawkeye, their old man, Bart, swore revenge on him. It wasn’t a threat Yancey was about to take lightly -- he well knew that Bart was a vicious outlaw and no stranger to killing. All of which...
When a man plays both ends against the middle, there’s always the chance the deal might just blow up in his face. But the man who figured to turn outlaw leader Lincoln Rand in for a new identity, a ranch all paid-for and a lifetime free from pr...
AN ENFORCER ADVENTURE SO BIG IT CAN ONLY BE TOLD OVER TWO BULLET-FAST BOOKS!Johnny Cato was south of the border, tracking a ruthless killer called Bearcat. Yancey Bannerman was up in the Indian Nations, chasing an owlhoot of his own. For Yancey, the ...
Johnny Cato’s life was hanging by a thread. At any moment, Tris Griffin, a madman obsessed with revenge, could simply snuff him out. The only way to keep Johnny alive was for his partner, Yancey Bannerman, to sacrifice himself. So Yancey rode t...
Kate Dukes’ life hung in the balance … and her father, the Governor of Texas, held his top Enforcer, Yancey Bannerman, responsible! When the Governor suspended him, Yancey decided – reluctantly – to strike out and go it alone....
Yancey Bannerman had reached the end of the trail. For years now he had been Governor Dukes’ top Enforcer, fighting outlaws and insurrectionists in every corner of the Lone Star State.Now he’d had enough.Governor Dukes had started treatin...
An old man named Regan turned up in town, splashing around five-dollar coins that looked brand-new … but were in fact a quarter-century old. Where had they come from? Where had they been kept all those years?Suspecting that they might be part o...
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 ...
Something big was in the wind - and to prove it, a small army of men who were willing to die for their cause chose one of the Lone Star State's best-loved public holidays to make an assassination attempt on Lester Dukes, the Governor of Texas. Althou...
Cooper Dutton and his bunch of butchers were cutting a wide swath of terror through the state. Anyone was fair game for Dutton’s guns, but in particular the outlaw was hunting down and getting even with all the people who’d put him in pri...
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 â...
The orders came straight from the President himself, so Yancey Bannerman and Johnny Cato had no choice but to carry them out. But the orders stunk to high heaven.Washington had promised to supply a small army of gunfighters, plus weapons and ammuniti...
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’...
The girl wanted Brace Yargo dead, and Yancey Bannerman couldn’t blame her. Yargo had raped the girl and stabbed her father to death. But Bannerman worked as an Enforcer for the Governor of Texas, and Enforcers only ever got involved when it con...
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 beh...
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 pa...
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...
“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 daught...
The girl saved Yancey Bannerman’s life when he got involved in a shootout with bank robbers. Afterwards, when he asked her for her name, her only reply was, “Call me Texas!”She had the look of a killer about her, and as it turned ou...
It should have been an arrest like any other for Yancey Bannerman. But when the whole thing blew up in Yancey’s face, the big, gun-swift gpovernor’s Enforcer found himself on a deadly manhunt. The body-littered trail eventually led him to...
To avert a bloody range war, Lester Dukes, the governor of Texas, dispatched his two top Enforcers, Yancey Bannerman and Johnny Cato, to Wolf Creek Valley. Cattleman Clint Garrett wanted all that land for himself and was in no mood to share it with h...