Semi-corruptible ex-LAPD cop Harry Palmer is hired by an African-American defense-industry worker who is a victim of workplace contaminants to help him get his pension from an airline industry which may be going bankrupt. Harry is also asked to plug a leak in the Henry Wallace presidential campaign which is sabotaging its efforts to get off the ground. As he follows a trail strewn with corpses and sex, confronting airline industry bigwigs, philandering generals, their lascivious wives, and an Okie foreman with ties to the Tulsa massacre, Harry starts making dangerous connections.