New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.

A fugitive killer posing as a policeman arrests two campers in the Arizona mountains.

Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.