As an honest cop, Captain Lanny Just has problems. His Police Chief and several of his men are on the take from local gangster kingpin, "Boss" Myrtle. Myrtle's daughter Bonnie is in love with Lanny, but the young policeman feels he can't pursue the relationship because of her father's criminal activities--of which Bonnie is unaware. Lanny's problems multiply alarmingly as his hometown of Freshwater is threatened by a sudden influx of murderous criminals from New York--a gang of bank raiders and "Pretty Boy," a psychotic murderer of young women. Then Bonnie goes missing... The only solution seems to be: CALL IN THE FEDS Another classic action thriller torn from the pulp paperbacks of the 1950s