spoiers atlanta crime auctioneer with burt reynolds and sgt . sharky and and his tough and well oiled sharky machine let . frisco and charles durning and and officer papa and arch and brian keith and berney casey and break up the atlanta crime syndicate who on the verge of put their man in the geroria governor state house . bust after mess up a major drug police sting operation and with the drug dealer and a number of innocent pedestrian shoot and kill and sgt . sharky be transfer into vice . bust hooker john and pervert sgt . sharky find a list of call girl in the wallet of a top atlanta pimp and after bug one of the call girl apartment it turn out that she have don hotchkins and earl holliman and a candidate for governor a a regular costumer . a sharky start to investigate this strange arraignment he find out that the good family man and marry with five child and hotchkins be also on the payroll of vittorio victor gassman the mob godfather of atlanta . the high price call girl dominoe and rachel ward and who involve with hotchkins be tire of be a hooker and want to leave victor stable of call girl and live with hotchkins a his live in mistress after he get elect governor of georgia and which be already a forgone conclusion and but their only one slight hitch while will victor let go of her . tangle with the gassman syndicate the corrupt atlanta police and city official and as well a the local chinese mob and sgt . sharky end up lose most of his men and include two of his finger and a he bring down the gassman mafia in a final shoot out with the his mobster at the famous atlanta peachtree plaza hotel . statueques and beautiful rachel ward a dominoe be think to have be murder by gassman drug out hit man billy score and henry silva and who blow her face off with a shot gun but in reality it turn out that he really kill dominoe call girl room mate tiffany and aarika well and with dominoe away in the country . sharky and who be in love with dominoe from afar and find out the truth about her be alive and to the surprise and shock of mob kingpin victor gassman be go to use her and by get dominoe to testify against him and to put gassman and his mob away for good but the cunning and vicious victor wasn not go to go willingly and let sharky know it sooner then he think . blood spatter shootout at the peachtree plaza hotel in the film final sequence with sharky machine have it out with the almost indestructible junkie hit man billy score . shoot it out on the hotel stairway both billy score and sharky machine member arch come face to face with billy drug induced invincibility clash with arch zen reality alert philosophy in what can best be say to be a battle of two culture represent west and east .