Owen Hendricks is an agent with the CIA.
Well, he is a lawyer. That is an important fact to remember. He is not a trained field operative. Unfortunately, that does not mean he is not asked to operate out in the field. In fact, he is and he finds he has to learn a lot of life-saving skills very, very quickly.
The first season of adventures is wonderfully summarized on IMdB as: "Owen Hendricks [is] a young CIA lawyer whose first week on the job turns upside down when he discovers a threatening letter by former asset Max Meladze, who plans to expose the agency unless they exonerate her of a serious crime. Owen quickly becomes entangled in a dangerous and often absurd world of power politics and mischievous players, as he travels the world in hopes of completing his assignment and making a mark at the CIA."
Another description, this one coming from Wikipedia, tells us: "Fledgling lawyer Owen Hendricks, who has just started working for the CIA after graduating from Georgetown Law, has his life turned upside down when he encounters an Eastern European asset who threatens extortion if she is not freed from prison. As her long-term relationship with the CIA is revealed, he becomes entangled in convoluted international politics. Hendricks negotiates with the asset and finds himself at odds with menacing individuals and groups, risking his life as he tries to fulfill his duties."
Hendricks is approximately 26 years old when we first meet him, a good-looking man with an earnest demeanor who strives to do both good and right in a job where those two factors are often at odds. His natural inclination to believe people is constantly being taken advantage of but he is also exceptionally intelligent and able to think on his feet so he surprises, well, everyone.
And then there is Max Meladze, a former CIA asset who is in prison for having beaten a pretty nasty truck driver to death. She has secrets she is willing to tell unless the Agency helps her out and that is sort of where Hendricks comes in. The interaction between these two, one a wet-behind-the-ears newbie and the other a hardened veteran, is well worth the price of admission.