Connor Reed is an agent with The Chameleon Project.
First, about that organization, we are told that it was "the most operationally effective unit within the UK's security services. The Chameleon Project was deniable with only a select few in the upper echelons knowing of its existence. Created in 1999, the unit's original remit was to deal with domestic threats born from the arrival of international organised crime syndicates. Many of these overseas crime lords settled in the UK to escape the harsher judicial system of their homelands. It had been decided by the powers at the top that the fallout in time, money, effort, and reputation to deal with these individuals using normal legal means was too expensive. Some other way was needed.
The black-ops unit is lead by Bruce McQuillan was that other way. "The missions they carried out were highly sensitive: blackmail, extradition, enhanced interrogation and assassinations were among the methods used."
McQuillan plays a major role in all of the adventures, so much so that had Connor Reed not be designated, rightly so, as the main character, McQuillan could easily have been slotted in that position. McQuillan is a pretty fascinating individual who would be a bad fellow to make enemies with.
But the star attraction is definitely Connor Reed, a man who joined the Royal Marines when he was 18 years of age and made it a point to apply for, train at, and later serve in the prestigious - or "most notorious" - "Four-Five Commando Unit". The first recorded adventure is named The Bootneck because members of that group were so nicknamed; "It describes a [Royal] Marine with a reputation of a high level of soldiering ability, combined with an adherence to its Ethos." Reed decidedly fits because he is not only a man with incredible 'soldiering ability', he is also a man with a solid set of ethics.
That does not mean, however, that Reed is a particularly nice man, as we learn - and so does his target - in the opening of that first adventure. The target was a very unpleasant but powerful figure who had gotten away with molesting young girls far too long. When Reed took an interest in this fellow, it was not a nice time for that man.
When McQuillan learned of Reed's activities, he decided that he had found a particularly dangerous and deadly tool he might be able to use from time to time. A very good example of the kind of man that Reed is - how practical and straight-forward his thinking is - when McQuillan tells Reed he can either go to prison for what Reed had done to that bad man mentioned before or go to work for McQuillan, Reed's first question was how long he would be serving and his next one was, "Do I get paid?"
!!Good Lines:
- When told that violence begets violence, Reed retorted, "I'll be sure to swap notes on that theory with Martin Luther King and Gandhi if I get the chance."