An laid-off engineer trains a group of Vietnam veterans to steal munitions from a National Guard armory, and Cannon is hired by the wife of one of them to find her missing husband.
Cannon is hired to protect a lawyer who has received death threats after defending her clients, two small-time crooks, suspected of a safe-cracking at a charitable foundation.
Cannon witnesses the attempted holdup of a bar and shoots the thief before he escapes. The man was with a woman who accidentally shoots her in the gunfight. The woman later claims she didn't know the man and that it was Cannon who shot her.
A sheep rancher is accused of criminal negligence when a man is killed on her property by a "coyote getter" trap, and she calls on Cannon to exonerate her.
Cannon is hired to help a man who wandered into someone's home after being beaten up. He has no memory or any I.D. on him. Two thugs are after him and one of his benefactors may have a secret agenda.
A bystander is charged after he sees a woman being assaulted by a businessman, he intervenes, and the businessman dies of a heart attack. But was it a set-up?
To protect an author whose life has been threatened, Cannon puts him in a motor-home to finish his manuscript and investigates who might want the writer dead.
After a lawyer working on a controversial case disappears Cannon is hired to help find him. The lawyer is a diabetic and may die if he isn't found in time.
When a reporter is threatened with jail time for refusing to reveal her source to the grand jury, she hires Cannon to prove her story without using that source.