Sidney Poitier is back as Lt. Virgil Tibbs! When six masked figures rob a seemingly normal furniture factory, they leave with a multimillion-dollar cache of heroin! But they're no ordinary crooks. They're a band of vigilantes frustrated with the law's inability to fight the city's drug problem. After contacting Tibbs, they confess to the break-in and ask for his help. But Tibbs soon finds himself at odds with the police and a ruthless drug syndicate...

The thrilling and unbelievably true story of the man who almost pulled off the biggest literary con of the 20th century. When Clifford Irving convinces a major publishing house that Howard Hughes, the bigger-than-life billionaire recluse, has asked Irving to pen his authorized autobiography, Irving must concoct an elaborate scheme to prove his fake manuscript is real.