While exchanging gunfire with a ring of counterfeiters, Max tries to keep a wounded Charlie conscious by recounting the details of a complicated homicide case.
Max Monroe is trying to dodge three hit men ordered by dying mobster Bruno Petrell while attending a chess tournament and flirting with a renown lady champion.
Mobsters kidnap Lafontaine Smith, a key witness against them. Max had located Smith to testify against mobster Ray Dominick, only for him to be kidnapped by Dominick's thugs.
Sam Frank, a homeless clairvoyant, with a knack for predicting when crimes will occur, sends Max and Charlie on the trail of an odd collection of suspects.
Max finds a wounded girl in the trunk of a stolen Rolls-Royce and, after discovering that a bullet in the head has left her with amnesia, tries to help her recover her memory by re-tracing her recent activities.
