Jock Caprisi, until recently a columnist for a sleazy New York tabloid, has signed on to a job he's much more comfortable with - media consultant to the highly respected liberal senator from New York, Morton Beaufoy. Beaufoy is being challenged in the primary by a reprehensible congressman, but the prediction is that the senator will easily win the nomination for what he plans to be his final term.

That's until a honey blonde Beaufoy admits to knowing is found dead in his garaged automobile — stabbed in a manner that defies explanation. From then on, Caprisi spins frantically to fend off the media, the police, looming personal danger, and perhaps most challenging of all, the opposing congressman's bright, cunning, sexy, and amoral campaign manager, Poppy Hancock, who will stop at absolutely nothing to win for her candidate.