A private school girl hires Hammer to find her father, a man who was the getaway driver for a hotel robbery to order to fund his daughter's school fees. The solution goes all the way up the social ladder to a senate candidate.
A sophisticated school girl from a private school is looking for her father. It turns out that her father exaggerated his status in society and had been working hard to support his daughter. His last job was as the getaway driver for a gang pulling a hotel robbery that goes wrong when a man is killed. The criminals who did the robbery are gradually being killed off because they also stole an important book with blackmail details. Hammer now has to find the girl's father before he too is killed. When the girl is kidnapped Hammer has to work even faster.—jem