Owing to a rash of agent deaths (the result of Sterling's carelessness), ISIS can't meet government diversity standards. Enter the gruffly elegant Conway Stern, an "onyx" agent who wears a Star of David around his neck. Conway is "a diversity double ... (more)whammy," gushes Malory, but that and his secret-agent skills aren't the only reasons she hired him.

Coby Bell, Mark Paterson, Sam Ellis