"black box" is the first volume in the "save the world complex series". This sci-fi series explores a mysterious and powerful black box, the shepherd and their enormous impact on the world's people and their politics, religions, science and militaries. "Conversionists" and "anti-conversionists" engage in aggressive struggle for the black box's potentially unlimited power and the human race's future. Moving amongst them is the quiet shepherd, keeper of the black box.