""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.