Mike is hired to protect Michelle Phillips, an old flame who he hasn't seen in almost 20 years. Phillips heads up an all female high-risk courier agency that has become tied up in a dangerous exchange involving high-stakes bribes by an American helicopter manufacturer to a corrupt General in Central America. Phillips nonetheless drops dead in the middle of testifying before a grand jury, but not before informing Mike that he as a 19 year old daughter who is caught in the middle of everything and might already be dead.
When his longtime friend Captain Pat Chambers is wounded in a drug bust and arrested as an accessory to drug trafficking, private detective Mike Hammer vows to help him clear his name. Assistant District Attorney Barrington dislikes Hammer and believes that Chambers is guilty.
After being swindled out of their life savings, an elderly couple hire Mike to go after a fraudulent gold investment company.
Mike Hammer is asked to Las Vegas by an entertainer named Johnny Roman and when he refuses, he is abducted and parachuted into the town. Hammer thinks it was Johnny who shanghaied him there, but Johnny denies it. He explains that the reason he wants Hammer’s help is that the singer, Barbara Leguire, has stolen something from him.
