Aaditya Sen is an agent with Unit 22.
This is part of the Indian Intelligence community, a subset of the larger Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) which is the foreign intelligence agency of that large, populous nation.
A pretty decent short explanation of both Unit 22 and Sen's role in it comes from the man himself as he tells us, "I once worked for the government, in another part of the R&AW not too many people hear of. I had been a part of the Special Group, a unit within the Special Frontier Force, what we used to call '22'. I had spent years riding into missions that never officially happened, killing enemies we never officially killed. They gave me a bunch of medals, partly for doing my job well, mostly to keep my mouth shut. After my last mission, they wanted me to keep working in the office in Delhi, perhaps to genuinely help me, or perhaps to just keep me from being a PR nightmare if I did something stupid like blow my head off. On the face of it, it was all good. I had some people who cared about me, a job to do, people who depended on me".
He also had, as we quickly find out at the beginning of the first recorded adventure, a boss who not only did not care anything about Sen, he hated that Sen was assigned to his division - not the most auspicious working environment. Luckily for Sen, and us readers, he will not be sitting this desk for long.
Good Lines:
- Written about Sen, "My smile disappeared, replaced by a look that many men had seen, usually just before I killed them".