Nick Reagan was an agent with the CIA.
As we meet him, he is just entering the second half of his 30s, standing an inch or two over six feet, and fastidious in his keeping in excellent physical shape. "His complexion was tanned from all the time he spent in the field, his rugged features even, his dark brown hair cut short. He had been hardened by combat experience and toughened by a decade spent in the Agency's clandestine service." In that time Reagan has become used to working in the field without a safety net as he uses a non-official cover in his travels. He is found of playing a sales representative, complete with inexpensive, often poor-fitting suits as his disguise.
Prior to his employment at Langley, Reagan had served in the military seeing an appreciable amount of action in Afghanistan. He made the transition when the team of soldiers he was in were ambushed and all but he and his friend Weber were killed. Both knew the experience and the loss made staying in the same line of work untenable so when the Agency representative came with an offer to both, they each took it, remaining close though each works separately.
Reagan remains solidly single not because he is reluctant to have a deeper relationship but because he knows his work schedule and his life expectancy makes trying to have one terribly unfair to the other party. He does come close to one with Erin David, one of the CIA's top analysts in charge of her own select team of data miners. Their love for each other is solid and both know it would become more if the situation was different.
Good Lines:
- Said of one of his supervisors back in Langley, "she did not have a grin's worth of a sense of humor."