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 homesteaders, much less a sheepman.

Yancey and Johnny bought into the situation posing as gunmen-for-hire, but quickly discovered that there were other forces at work, most notably the gunfighter Hondo Rhodes, whose gang inhabited the land just the other side of Wolf Creek itself.

Few people had ever dared to cross that stretch of water, and those who did rarely came back. But the Enforcers didn't intend to let a simple creek stop their investigation, even though it was known locally as … the Lobo Line.

Last in the Series

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 governor's Enforcer found himself on a deadly manhunt.

The body-littered trail eventually led him to a town called Socorro, and the murder of a good man that looked like going unpunished … until Yancey bought into it.

Then, with one two brave townsmen to back him, he went against the Block L's tough crew … and the very man he had come all this way to find – and kill.

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 out she was indeed on a killing trail, determined to find and kill five men who had committed a truly dreadful crime. Every other thought and feeling had been burned right out of her. Now she only existed to ride and kill.

Against his better judgment, Yancey decided to join her and guide her through her manhunt. She was tough, and she was good with a gun, but she could be better, faster, so Yancey took it upon himself to refine her skills … and when they finally reached trail's end, he was right there beside her, allowing the girl called Texas to take her revenge in full …

"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 daughter of one of your top-ranking senators. Hell, the man has to be stopped at all costs."

The truth of it was that Governor Dukes' top Enforcer was a sick man, suffering from headaches caused by an old scalp wound. But that didn't change the facts.

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 Bannerman and Johnny Cato set out to track down the thieves. The mission wasn't official—they were doing it as a favor to Winchester's representative, Lang Huckabee. Before it was over, however, good men and bad would die wholesale, the Governor's daughter, Kate, would find herself in the clutches of a homicidal madman, and death would claim one of the heroes who went after Mad Dog Hallam.

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 Governor Lester Dukes was determined to find out just what it was. So he called in Yancey Bannerman, with orders to go undercover, and posing as Sundance, blow whatever crooked scheme it was wide-open.

Yancey and his gun-swift partner Johnny Cato, met violence at every turn and almost died on the Mexican desert they called the White Hell. But the real shock was still to come … when Bannerman discovered just who Brandon really was.

The Bannerman business empire spread right across the west, but Yancey Bannerman, the oldest son of magnate C.B. Bannerman, wasn't interested in all that wealth—at least, not if he had to sit behind a pile of ledgers and accounts to earn it. Yancey preferred the wide-open, adventurous life … and that was why C.B. disowned him.

To C.B.'s way of thinking, Yancey was little more than a black sheep. And anyway, he had another son, Chuck, and a daughter named Mattie, to rely on. But C.B. should have looked a little closer to home to find the real black sheep of the family. Chuck was up to his eyes in gambling debts, and that made him a desperate man … just desperate enough to try robbing the Governor of Texas himself!

Before he knew it, Yancey and his gun-swift partner, Johnny Cato, found themselves involved a plot to oust Governor Lester Dukes from power … and by the end of it, each man had himself a new job—as one of the Governor's go-anywhere, fight-anyone peacekeepers … the Enforcers.

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 to bring her parents' killers to justice.

She knew exactly the way to do it, too. She'd heard of Governor Dukes' two "enforcers", Yancey Bannerman and Johnny Cato. Though based in Texas, she knew they could flout jurisdiction and state lines, and ride the lawless land until the account with Slade was settled in blood.

She wanted that above all else. And nothing was going to stop her from being in at the kill!

The cold-blooded murder of rancher Abe Summers led to a surprising discovery—a long-lost treasure of Spanish reàls, escudos, doubloons and pieces of eight!

Abe's land-grabbing neighbour, Nathan Cross, wanted that treasure all to himself, and was prepared to have his hired gun, Lang Brodie, kill to get it.

But then Governor Dukes got involved, and quickly discovered that the coins were only half the story. There was something else still waiting to be unearthed, a treasure of far greater value than the coins …
So Dukes sent his two top Enforcers, Yancey Bannerman and Johnny Cato, down to the Sabine River country to help Abe's college professor daughter find … The Guns of Texas!

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 acres illegally by raising a land tax. Now, the town was about to celebrate its anniversary, and Governor Dukes was going to be the guest of honor. But for some, Dukes' visit was an opportunity to settle old scores.

Suspecting a possible assassination attempt, the Governor sent out his best Enforcers, Yancey Bannerman and Johnny Cato, to check out Rifle Ridge before he arrived. He didn't dream that one of them would end up being buried alive, while the other would build the very weapon that would be used to kill him!

After Yancey Bannerman, Johnny Cato was the best Enforcer Governor Dukes had. Johnny might like good whiskey and bad women, but he was hell with the hide off when it came to putting away the bad guys.

But Johnny was a man with a secret. No matter the game, no matter how steep the odds, he just couldn't resist the lure of the cards. And that gambling habit got him into debt, big-time, with some mighty shady characters.

Then the unthinkable happened. Johnny and Yancey came to blows over Johnny's problem, and the one-time gunsmith quit the Enforcers about thirty seconds before Governor Dukes could fire him. Johnny warned Bannerman that the next time they met, it would be through gunsmoke. Yancey believed him. But they'd been through so much together, he felt obliged to give Johnny one more chance to come good.

Big mistake…

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 a prominent senator. The deeper they dug, the more enemies they made, and when things turned real rough, they left a trail of bodies behind them.

The senator's death had been connected to something big, and the head honcho of a gang whose specialty was blackmail and entrapment was willing to do anything to thwart Governor Dukes' two top Enforcers. But still they kept coming, and when the mission became personal, Yancey and Johnny vowed that nothing would stop them from seeing it through to its explosive climax.

Lester Dukes, the Governor of Texas, felt that the time had come to expand his group of Enforcers—the go-anywhere, fight-anyone squad that maintained law and order in the Lone Star State. So he handed the chore to his two best men, Yancey Bannerman and Johnny Cato. They came up with Ironsite, a center where new Enforcers could be trained, and then set about recruiting the best of the best from the Texas Rangers.

A fanatic named Sam Burdin was fixing to invade the town of Van Horn with his twenty-strong army of so-called 'Texas Freedom Fighters', and they planned to give Governor Dukes a bullet-welcome when he came to take part in the Texas Independence Day celebrations.

Burdin said he was a patriot, a man who only had the welfare of Texas at heart. But the truth was very different. Burdin was a psychotic killer, and a mass-murderer in the making. And all that stood between him and total anarchy were … the Enforcers.