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RYAN RIVERA

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Full Name: Ryan Rivera
Nationality: American
Organization: MOF
Occupation Agent

Creator: Mark C. Gacis
Time Span: 2022 - 2022

ABOUT THE SERIES

Ryan Rivera is an agent with the MOF.

That acronym is for the Mission Operation Force, apparently a rather obscure branch of the American Intelligence community under the direction of Daniel Choo. This anonymity does not extend to its enemies, however, as we are witness to the violent end of a MOF operative in Beirut when the man he was monitoring captured him, identified him as being with the MOF, and then eliminated him.

The key operative for the MOF is Rivera, a former SEAL who had a history of being seconded to the CIA during his career in the military and who, when deciding it was time step away from the Navy was approached by Choo and offered a new, albeit quite similar career with him.

Rivera, father of a teenage girl name Lynn who is a huge fan of the comic book industry and loves to engage in cosplay, is a "highly trained frogman" who "specialized in hostage rescue, demolition, and sniper". Rivera's time in the military and then later with the MOF has seen him working two tours in Iraq and performing operations in the "Philippines, North Korea, Thailand, China, Afghanistan, and South Africa".

Serving with Rivera in the MOF as part of his team:

Joseph Gonzales, a college dropout, and a graduate from a tech school in LA, majoring in computer science, and music. He had a blackbelt in judo and kickboxing.
Mindy Reyna, a UCLA dropout, majored in business and anthropology. Specialized in disguising, and role-playing in the field. She can speak up to fifteen languages. Ryan can speak up to eight because he was overseas while serving in the military.
Howard Stallion. He was originally from Phoenix, Arizona. A former Army Ranger first regiment battalion, and a former hacker for NSA, CIA, and FBI. Howard does the hacking skills in the field which is his specialty.
Shiori Kiyama. From Tokyo, Japan, a former intelligence officer for the PSIA (Public Service Intelligence Agency). Shiori specialized in infiltration. She is kind of short, like 5'5 in height.
Antonio Fernando, originally from Los Angeles, and a graduate of ITT institute in Massachusetts. Antonio specializes in making gadgets that can be used on the mission.

Working as the principle opponent for Rivera and the MOF is an international criminal syndicate known as OWL, which apparently stands for the Organization of World Leaders, which makes no sense to me.

NOVELLAS AND SHORT STORIES

Number of Stories:4
First Appearance:2022
Last Appearance:2022

These adventures are listed in the Novella section because of their size, which definitely fit, even though they were sold separately as though books.


1 Operation: Confidential: Volume 1 Operation: Confidential: Volume 1
Written by Mark C. Gacis
Copyright: 2022

"An organization OWL claiming to have a secret project in their hands. Ryan Rivera works with the agency, Mission Operation Force to be assign with an elite team of covert operatives to investigate the matter. Will they uncover the secret project, or will OWL succeed to dominate the world?"
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2 Operation: Confidential: Volume 2 Operation: Confidential: Volume 2
Written by Mark C. Gacis
Copyright: 2022

"Natsumi Ueda, an assassin hired by Lotus Spear under the code name "Shadow Violet" has been assigned to kill the target known as "Black Lily" operative of OWL" Organization of World leaders" Can Natsumi execute Black Lily before she escapes?! A US submarine has been destroyed by a radioactive B.E.A.C.O.N. near the South China sea leaving half the crew to die by the sea, and in a different part of the world, a secret operative in Berlin has been captured!
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3 Operation: Confidential: Volume 3 Operation: Confidential: Volume 3
Written by Mark C. Gacis
Copyright: 2022

"After completing the mission on curing the virus and rescuing the agent from the secret prison in Berlin. The organization OWL is making their move on creating a bioweapon, codename ATHENA. They are going to test it in New York City. And the leader, codename “Snakeflower” is on the run. Also, she hired professionals to do her dirty work to terminate someone who is standing in her way."
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4 Operation: Confidential: Volume 4 Operation: Confidential: Volume 4
Written by Mark C. Gacis
Copyright: 2022

"Two of the CIA agents were caught and prisoned by the Chinese authorities for sneaking into their headquarters. An investor in Bangkok became a target of the deadly assassin. The gang of Manila who had murdered a businessman without a reason. Ryan is back again with two of the operatives assigned to the team, the hacker, and the point person. How can they rescue the agents from prison, preventing the assassination, and finding out the real culprit who had murdered the businessman?"
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MY COMMENTS

These adventures are listed on Amazon as for ages 12 and up; I would not go too far 'up'. The plotting is not bad - some really bad bad guys doing really bad things and the good guys having to be really good at their job to stop them. The writing, however, could use a fair amount of work. I was not engaged at all and many of the lines in the stories are poorly crafted.

The covers for the adventures are pretty darn good anime illustrations and since the illustrator was listed in the promotional data, I had hoped there would be more inside but alas that is not the case. Shame, that. I have oddly become a fan of the style and Ruri Renata's work seems darn good to me.

GRADE

My Grade: B-

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