Mike Hammer is on the beat after the untimely death of former policeman Chic Farrell's death. After Mike finds Chic's son dead in a heroin house, the former cop is burning for revenge. Chic's own murder leaves Mike Hammer alone to find the killers, and the only witness is a strung out hooker who's on the run. The Russians and their steady supply of heroin to the city put them high up on Hammer's list of suspects.

An operating room with dead nurses, doctors, and patient draws serious questions, but something doesn't smell quite right. The daughter of the patient, whose body odor was believed to be the source of the deadly fumes, brings the case to Mike along with some suspicious questions about the nature of the hospital's treatment plan for her father. Something's just not right, and Hammer is determined to find out what.

A Hollywood actress with hometown ties to Hammer becomes the primary suspect in the gruesome murder of her own producer and boyfriend. In order to clear her name, she asks Mike to finds the real killer. The East Coast's best private eye must head West to get to the truth behind the lies. But as Hammer conducts his investigation, the situation in Malibu turns sticky, and he discovers that nothing is as it seems.

The virtual world has real consequences in Mike Hammer's latest case. Mike Hammer is offered a case by the worried grandmother of a missing young woman. Tamara had been working as a model for a racy website before her disappearance, and when Hammer's team discovers a snuff film posted online, he worries that she may have been victimized by something much more serious. Mike Hammer is on the case to either find Tamara, or bring her murderers to justice....

An unexpected rendezvous between Maya and her globetrotting boyfriend Tony put Maya, Hammer, and his team in the middle of a case of international espionage. Maya is kidnapped, and Hammer must find her.

There's more than just paint on the walls when Mike tries to help Velda after her boyfriend, an artist, is murdered in his studio before an exhibition. But Hammer struggles to connect the dots in this mysterious case, and a long list of suspects emerges when he discovers that the artist often made others see red. Could it be the artist's jealous ex, the wealthy art collector, the corrupted art critic, the gallery owner, or even Velda herself?

After being released from his time in prison, Mike Hammer's old friend Herman Simpson joins him for dinner. The discussion turns techie when Simpson brings up the computer revolution that is underway. However, a bank robbery involving this same technology-- and a suspiciously similar criminal --takes place the same evening. Simpson becomes the prime suspect, and Hammer is his only hope at staying free.