George Strus

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?

A man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling the locals who all seem to have something to hide.