Day of the Lawless — Kirk Hamilton

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 into the wrong hands, it could spell disaster, especially for the Lone Star State.
Where the Rangers had failed in stopping the gun-runners, Dukes' top Enforcers, Yancey Bannerman and Johnny Cato, might just succeed. The old politician could only hope. Because down in Mexico, El Halcon -- a bandit masquerading as a patriot -- was building an army to take back everything that remained of Old Spain … including Texas itself!


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.