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 weren't about to tell!Then Yancey took a bullet-graze to the skull, and before he could recover from that, a devastating train derailment finally put him in a hospital bed. Facing an operation that could kill him as easily as it could cure him, Yancey was out of action—which left his partner, Johnny Cato, to finish what he'd started.Nothing could have prepared Johnny for what followed—a bullet wound that came real close to killing him, a woman with whom he fell in love ... and a bunch of gunswift killers who aimed to execute him before he could spoil their get-rich-quick scheme!