Covert Action

Writer/producer/director/star J. Christian Ingvordsen created his next action hero, Frank White, with this film and decided White would be more of a talker. NOOOOOOOO! The trilogy kicked off with Cover Action (1988), which lives up to its title by featuring lots of Congressional testimony in its first half. White is being grilled by a Congressdude about the assassination of a Central American politician in the U. S. and some covert CIA missions White was one. Via flashbacks we learn about White becoming the protege of super sniper Rick Burns (Rick Washburn, returning from earlier films as a new character and armorer) and how their intertwining lives led to the assassination. Things pick up in the second half as White and Burns chase each other, and we get not one but two big shootouts in empty warehouses. It ends with White having his faith in the U. S. Government shaken, which leads to the sequel Shocktroop (1989) the following year.