McCall helps a fellow Intelligence officer stay alive despite someone's efforts to keep him from talking to a Congressional committee.

McCall's former protege at the Agency calls in a panic when she is apparently framed for the theft of a large amount of money from her gangster employer, but he arrives too late to save her life.

A desperate high school principal calls on McCall for help in combating the gang responsible for the rape of a girl in the school gymnasium.

McCall's search for a kidnapped Chilean poet gets very intense when he learns the kidnapper killed his father many years ago.