Mike Hammer is spending some solo time in a seedy bar on a stormy night when a nervous man enters, soaked and carrying a small child A short while later, after abandoning the child, he is gunned down outside, leaving the child an orphan Once again, without pay, Mike goes after the murderer, slugging it out with a two-timing, still luscious, ex-Hollywood starlet who's using everything she's got to block the trail of a vicious killer