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 ... or he'd give in to the lure of wicked women and strong liquor and squander all the money C. B. had entrusted to him. No one expected Chuck to end up bucking a ruthless syndicate and its gun-swift killers. Yancey Bannerman, the top Enforcer for the Governor of Texas, had no great love for his brother, but blood was blood, and when Chuck reached out for help, Yancey couldn't refuse him. But in taking on the syndicate alone, he was putting his own life on the line. And the syndicate gunmen always played for keeps.