A different spy agency for a different world. Infinite Crisis has changed the DCU, and Checkmate has shaped its hard-learned lessons into a new game plan. It's all about the balance of power. Between Black and White; human and metahuman; and between the familiar faces who have become its new Kings and Queens. It's also about propaganda wars, black ops combat, and political manuevering. First, however, they must prove their right to exist to the U.N. and they only have hours to do it.