MEET JACK SAVAGE -- Soft-Boiled Detective. Jack Savage is a private eye whose turf is the Monterey Peninsula. No one tries harder than "Monterey Jack," but unfortunately he labors under two handicaps--he is a neophyte, and he happened to be born under a very strange star. Life, for Jack, is a succession of square pegs and round holes. His first case is so embarrassingly simple--find a locket lost by two Mexican women visiting the peninsula as tourists. Yet he soon finds himself ensnared in a dangerous web that links the CIA, a dominatrix, sinister visitors from Taiwan, and a Silicon Valley company with its super-secret "stealth bomb." All this, while being upstaged by an inscrutable dog with his own agenda.