A distraught father comes to The Forum newspaper city room seeking Mike's help, suspecting that his daughter has been murdered. MIke traces the murder to a pornography producer.
Andros tries to connect a plane-crash victim's diamonds with a Cabinet-post nominee.
Investigative reporter Mike Andros is convinced by the death of a once-prominent author that Dr. Hans Kipness, highly prized by his chic east side clientele, is administering more than vitamin B-12 in his shots.
Investigative reporter Mike Andros, discovers a political columnist from Washington, DC, is on the take from the New York mob when a reporter for the New York Forum is killed in a car explosion intended for another newsman.
Andros fears for the life of a union leader who disappears without a trace. What he and Sandi piece together leads Mike to a powerful and unscrupulous builder involved in bribes, payoffs and maybe murder.
A mother is heartbroken when she loses her son to a strange religious order.
On the trail of a big story involving a religious cult that preys on vulnerable young people and makes them dupes by using brain washing techniques, Mike Andros stumbles upon a huge subversive master plan which could subtly overthrow the government.
Marina Angelis thinks she has discovered a man called Dracos, "the Beast of Athens," responsible for scores of murders during the Greek civil war — now living in New York City as Gregory Bron.
College students are being recruited to act as "mules" or carriers of hard drugs from a foreign country to the United States. When one such carrier is killed, Mike Andros turns his attention to cracking the slick operation. Mike's detective work in this entry is absorbing and the eventual confrontation with Mr Big serves as a well-constructed finale.
Mavis Higgins, an immigrant witnesses the murder of a toymaker but is terrified because of her immigration situation to go to the police with her evidence. A priest and Mike Andros try to encourage her.
A linebacker is drawn into a cover-up for the murder a quarterback committed.
A hunted radical leader asks Andros to arrange for his safe surrender.
An editor of a scandal publication gets burned out repeatedly for not revealing his sources, and Mike, not fond of the editor, tries to steer an even course through a maze of international figures and reputations.