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.

After a prostitute is murdered, Father Dressler is worried about the women who work nights in his neighborhood. The holy man asks Mike Hammer, a former parishioner, for help protecting the local ladies of the night but the rules of the confessional forbid him from giving Hammer too many details. When Dressler ends up dead, Mike Hammer is on the case, and he takes a position that is not so forgiving.

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....

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.

While on a stakeout, Mike steps in to save a cop and arrest a mobster. Lingering doubts about the scenario trouble Hammer, and he searches for a connection. A surprise birthday party interrupts his train of thought, but a threatening phone call puts the private investigator right back in the thick of things. When the caller tell Mike Hammer that he has 24 hours to live, he must uncover the truth at the bottom of the mystery.

Radio host Dr. Silvia runs an on-air love and relationship advice show for women. When Mike Hammer's girlfriend takes Dr. Silvia's advice to dump him, he makes an unscheduled guest appearance in her studio in order to give her a piece of his mind. With his new reputation as a macho bully, Mike Hammer becomes the prime suspect after she is suddenly murdered. Now, he and his team must prove his innocence by finding the real killer.

After failing to save a tobacco company scientist scheduled to testify in court, Mike Hammer decides to quit smoking. However, a clean lifestyle becomes harder than he thought when he follows up on his client's murder. The dead scientist leaves behind questions about the killer's motives, his work at the company, and the tobacco industry at large. Of course, the nicotine withdrawals don't seem to help.

Lila B. is in the wind, terrified that she may have seen something to precipitate the murders. Mike Hammer finds a way to post bail and sets out to track the jazz singer down. But with Lila on the lam and Hammer on her trail, the death toll continues to rise and raise the cops' suspicions. Lila reunites with Johnny Dive, and both find themselves face to face with danger when mobsters get a hold of them.

Mike can't wait to hit the open road and go bass fishing with Skip. The first stop on their trip is Lou's bar. A pleasant morning turns into a dangerous afternoon when Hammer realizes that a team of violent bank robbers is sitting at the next table. The situation spirals and after a shoot out that leaves Grady wounded, the volatile men and their lingerie-clad femme fatale hold everyone in the bar hostage. Now, Hammer must keep everyone safe and stop...

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.