In the early 1980s, as the Cold War stubbornly refuses to thaw, a new battle heats upâŠfor the soul of the intelligence agency Checkmate. As the agencyâs super-heroic public face, Jackson Kingâa.k.a. the armored Battalion, former leader of Stormwatch and the symbol of American mightâhas long suspected that Adeline Kane is up to dirty tricks overseas, engineering horrors that betray everything he believes about service to oneâs country. But King doesnât know that Kane has a clever new allyâan ambitious young woman named Amanda Waller. She has her own ideas about how metahumans can serve their country. And honor, dignity, and long lives donât factor into themâŠ