****SPOILERS**** After an eight year absent Mike Hammer, Stacey Keach, is back, due to popular demand, bigger and badder then ever as the hard knocking as well as soft hearted private detective who's out to find the murderer of his good friend retired NYPD office Chick Farrell, Michael Potter. It's Farrell who was gunned down by a drug pusher in a abundant apartment building in the then drug ridden Alphabet City-Now Yuppiville- section of lower Manhattan. This is after Hammer found Farrell's son dead of an overdose of heroin lying there face down in the rubble.
Hammer gets on the case and finds out that the drugs that killed Farrell's son, Gale, came from a notorious Russian mob in the ares that was competing with the Italian Mafia for territorial rights there. The Russians headed by ousted Russian gangster, from Mother Russia, and now art dealer Ilyich Bucarin, William "Lucy" Lucking, who uses his position as a art connoisseur as a front for his both drug and prostitution operations. He's also trying to push the Malia out by getting the Feds and police on their back by framing them for the crimes that his gang are committing.
***SPOLIERS*** Slam bang final with Hammer having it out with Bucarin after he dispatched his entire gang of hoods. And ironically it's non other then one of Bucarin's victims or customers a junkie who ends up doing the guy in. Not as an act of revenge but in trying to rip his expensive diamond& gold watch off so he can use the cash he gets for it for a fix that he so desperately needed. There's also Farrell's other son the drift-less and unemployed Nick, Shane Conrad, who ends up working for Hammer as his assistant. Nick's problems started when he took the rap for his older brother Gale in a drug arrest to keep him from doing time behind bars that in the end messed up his entire life.
Hammer gets on the case and finds out that the drugs that killed Farrell's son, Gale, came from a notorious Russian mob in the ares that was competing with the Italian Mafia for territorial rights there. The Russians headed by ousted Russian gangster, from Mother Russia, and now art dealer Ilyich Bucarin, William "Lucy" Lucking, who uses his position as a art connoisseur as a front for his both drug and prostitution operations. He's also trying to push the Malia out by getting the Feds and police on their back by framing them for the crimes that his gang are committing.
***SPOLIERS*** Slam bang final with Hammer having it out with Bucarin after he dispatched his entire gang of hoods. And ironically it's non other then one of Bucarin's victims or customers a junkie who ends up doing the guy in. Not as an act of revenge but in trying to rip his expensive diamond& gold watch off so he can use the cash he gets for it for a fix that he so desperately needed. There's also Farrell's other son the drift-less and unemployed Nick, Shane Conrad, who ends up working for Hammer as his assistant. Nick's problems started when he took the rap for his older brother Gale in a drug arrest to keep him from doing time behind bars that in the end messed up his entire life.
