Dave Barrett pursues a gang led by a demented, bomb-throwing, defrocked minister when he is hired by a union official to find the real criminals responsible for the murder and robbery for which his men are being falsely accused.

A muckraking reporter is captured and tortured into revealing where he has hidden evidence proving state graft payoffs.

The grisly stabbing death of a Marine buddy plunges Dave Barrett into the stormy backstage affairs of a theatrical troupe whose leading lady is fighting to revive her fading career.