Sergeant Joe McCoy is a tough soldier, a lady's man, and a scoundrel. He takes whatever he wants, whether it is a typewriter, an enemy bunker or another man's wife. When his Army career is abruptly ended, he publishes a pulpy novel that doesn't sell, and just when it seems things couldn't get worse, he meets Phoebe, who leaves him weak in the knees and is destined to change him. A mysterious publisher assigns him to write a biography of disgraced Congressmen and Communist Hunter J. Parnell Thomas. He grabs the deal but then finds he has made it with the devil. He doesn't know which way to...