Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.