Rob MacLaine is a security expert.
He and his partner, Joe Harper, are the two owners of a small and young but very qualified Harper MacLaine Security. It was new enough that they had to make pitches to potential clients themselves and then wonder whether they would get the contract to provide security measures for businesses and close personal protection for individuals. They were good enough to luckily not have to wait too long for a positive answer.
MacLaine is just on the lesser side of 35 years old. He had served with the elite SAS for several years before deciding to leave to start his business along with fellow soldier and friend, Harper, who had left a couple of months before. He hailed from an island off the west coast of Scotland, younger son of a well-to-do family. He had left home under a dark cloud at 16 and never looked back: "a petulant teenage gave way to a highly trained, combat hardened ex-soldier - a very dangerous man to cross swords with". MacLaine stands 6'3" tall with an athletic build, big and strong enough to make most people think again about starting trouble with him.
One interesting fact about MacLaine is that he owns a penthouse apartment in an apartment building along the Thames River, directly across from Vauxhall Cross, home to MI6. He jokes that he can see directly into James Bond's office from his study.
MacLaine's presence in this compendium is partially due to his previous career but mostly because of the troubles he will get into in his most recent one. Security work means keeping bad people out and when they really want in and someone stops them, there are very bad feelings. MacLaine will have to deal with them but luckily he is very good at that.