The Bad Shepherd introduces Jack, a seasoned detective whose instincts have kept him alive in a world where truth is rarely clean and justice is never simple.
Half is a perpetrator, and the other half is a victim, a killer who will not stop killing until he achieves his own justice, and what is worse is that his method of killing is so horrific that no human being knows the meaning.
Lives are being traded and identities bought and sold, a sinister traffic that would otherwise go undetected if it weren't for a car accident that takes the life of Maia Stevens, a famous actress who turns out to be not to be Maia at all.
Poco dopo la fine della Guerra Fredda, un ex legionario straniero viene ingaggiato per uccidere degli scienziati nucleari russi, sospettati di essere assunti da Paesi interessati del terzo mondo.