A judge's harsh condemnation of Mike Hammer's take-no-prisoners methods sends him on an introspective walk across a secluded bridge, ending in a way that could only happen to Hammer. When a terrified woman on the run from a gunman leaps off the side of the bridge, Hammer ends the would-be assassin's life, but it's too late for the dame. Now he's got two bodies on his hands-and to find out why he'll have to embroil himself in the darkest machinations of Cold War subterfuge.
