The clown and his friends are drawn into disputes over mining rights in an African copper mine. Max and his friends even invade the country's embassy to recover important documents.
Max avenges the death of his friend Ludowski, who left him a new identity as a last gift. Actually, the "clown" and his friends could now live in peace, but unfortunately someone puts a spoke in their wheel.
The Shadow Men's first assignment takes the friends to Portugal. They are to prevent a nuclear weapons deal. The Portuguese drug lord Juan Alvarado wants to buy nuclear grenades from deserted Ukrainian soldiers.
In order to take over the business himself, ex-policeman Hartmann kills drug dealer Alvardo and takes Claudia into his power. He only wants to release her if Max agrees to a meeting. Max agrees to a meeting.
Max's girlfriend Claudia is on board a plane carrying a powerful drug dealer to Switzerland for trial. While the plane is in the air, the drug lord is freed by his followers.
Using expensive high-tech equipment, South African racist Jan Smuts wants to gain control of the European satellite network in order to make Europe blackmail-able. To do this, he uses the researcher Dr. Sartorius, a notorious gambler.
"The Clown" tries to put a stop to a former NVA officer who is committing acts of sabotage all over Europe and is even targeting the Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne. The diabolical plan actually succeeds and Kress escapes.
Claudia and Dobbs witness a pick-pocketing. Claudia confronts the thief, who is twelve-year-old Ion. Then an unknown man tries to run them both over with a car. At the last moment they can save themselves.
Max and his friends take on the petty criminal Lazlo, who has hidden information about the drug dealer Hollbeck in a suitcase. To get the case, Hollbeck's accomplices take Lazlo's daughter Reneé hostage.
The team is to rescue a highly gifted boy from the clutches of Dr. Werner Gräfe, who wants to use his abilities for terrorist purposes. Max is able to get the boy out of Gräfe's "institute", but in the process Dobbs is captured.
Dobbs has an encounter with a UFO, but neither Max nor Claudia believe him. Then Dr. Gottwald blows up a refinery of his oil company. Max and his friends find out that aliens want to throw the world into chaos.
Dobbs inherits a functioning time machine. By an unfortunate coincidence, Max and Claudia end up in the Middle Ages at the castle of the Marquis of Mendoza. The tyrant is enchanted by Claudia and is determined to make her his wife.
