Patty Ann Gerrity

An outlaw and his crew take refuge in a house that just so happens to be where Hardie is baby-sitting.

When three bandits rob a bank in a small coastal town and shoot a bystander, Dan orders roadblocks that seem certain to cut off every avenue of escape. But their car is found empty. The Bandits, dressed as fisherman walk toward the beach when a launch appears to take them to a point down the coast.

When a young laboratory worker accidentally exposes himself to radioactive isotopes, he panics. Then his mind snaps and he flees out of town. News of the freak accident reaches the public. Hysteria mounts. How Dan Mathews hunts the terror-stricken-and now homicidal- fugitive makes a strange, suspenseful climax.