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Chinese communists to infiltrate AXE. Rossi kills Valante and intends to kill Carter and Valante's daughter to cover up his operation. Barbara Valante fights with Rossi and frees Carter. Rossi flees the apartment and Carter and Barbara chase after him. They follow him to his mansion where Barbara kills him.
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Carter's AXE colleague is murdered whilst meeting a retired Mafia boss, Frank Abruze. A $ 200,000 Mafia payment (over $ 1,000,000 in 2015) to Abruze is missing. Abruze's mistress, Sheila Brant, escapes unharmed and goes into hiding. Carter is assigned to uncover the killers. Posing as a truck driver,
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Carter is captured when he visits one of the girls in Moose's book without knowing she is Marco
Valante's daughter. She drugs Carter and calls her father. Marco Valante arrives accompanied by the local Mafia boss, Lew Rossi. Rossi set up Abruze for assassination when Abruze discovered that Rossi was
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Carter tracks down Cora, the last name in Moose's book, to a brothel near Las Vegas. The brothel madam remembers Cora fondly. She shows Carter a picture of her. It is Sheila Brant. Carter tells the madam that Moose killed Sheila. The madam agrees to set up Moose so Carter can kill him. They arrange
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Sheila is also tracked down by her former boyfriend, Moose – the man who actually killed Abruze and the AXE agent. Moose gave the stolen $ 200,000 to Sheila to hide while the heat died down. Moose captures Sheila and Carter. Moose expects Sheila to have the $ 200,000 on her and is angered when she
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Carter finds Moose's address book on the floor of Sheila's apartment. It contains the names of seven of Moose's girlfriends. Carter uses it to try to find Moose. Along the way, Carter is trailed by Mafia hitmen working for Marco
Valante hoping he will lead them to Moose. A second shadowy group is
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claims she has not. Moose beats Sheila to death. Carter is shot and is left to bleed to death. Abruze's best friend, Mafia hitman Marco
Valante, is also hot on the trail of his killers. He arrives in time to bandage Carter's wounds and leaves to continue his search.
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to meet Moose at a ghost town outside Las Vegas. Carter realises that it was the brothel madam who stole the $ 200,000 and that Sheila fled from Moose when she found out it had been stolen from her. Carter tells Moose and he kills the madam. Carter kills Moose.
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also following Carter and they have made repeated attempts to kill him. Carter suspects a senior Mafia figure set up Abruze for assassination after he vetoed plans for the Mafia to work with
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