Action

Action is a murder mystery leavened with humor. The central character, Rocky Stonebrook, is an ex-con, private detective, who writes poetry on the side and who tries to model himself after the TV character, Jim Rockford. A secret government agency hires him to find out who murdered an assassin. But in the process of his investigation, he discovers that the contractor is really a hit man organization pretending to be a government agency, and he himself becomes a target of the outfit that has hired him.