Plot Summary
After having been berated by a Judge, Mike Hammer goes for a walk on a rainy night in Manhattan and comes across a terrified woman and her pursuer on a bridge. He kills the man but the woman, terrified, jumps to her death from the bridge. Each possessed an oddly shaped green card, a clue that Hammer pursues. His friend in the police department, Pat Chambers, identifies them as membership cards for the local Communist Party. Mike attends a meeting and is mistaken for a spy from Moscow. At the same time, the FBI is searching for some lost secret papers and the career of a popular politician is threatened.
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