Lonnie Lonigan is operating a small service station in the hills above Los Angeles, when one fine Saturday morning a high powered Sheba drives up in the latest 1924 model, expensive, bullet holed, Chrysler automobile.
She is wearing clothes of a kind he's never seen a twist wearing before. She's beautiful, cool, and self controlled, and she figures him for a pint sized dummy. What to do?
That is something that Lonnie, veteran of the Lafayette Flying Corps, has to work out for himself. While he's thinking about it he finds he's also gotta deal with bootlegging, a murder or two, and an even more pressing problems, such as trying to stay alive.
In this kind of situation a man needs brains, luck, and a Chicago Typewriter. Oh, and yeah, also a bombing airplane ...