Jaxon 'Jax' Reigns is a part-time agent for the CIA.
By part-time, I mean he sometimes works for them. He once worked as a trusted and respected member of their elite Special Operations Group but then decided life should take him elsewhere. Unfortunately, when you are very good at your job and your employer knows that, it is more than likely that you will be asked to do this odd thing or two for them once in a while. Since the people at Langley have long memories, they never forget.
When we first meet him, he is teamed up with his close friend and colleague, Boomer, doing jobs as independent contractors for the CIA that the Agency was not legally allowed to do but which in their opinions needed doing.
Reigns is 32 years old and has already have far more action than most men twice his age. His life did not start well thanks to an alcoholic father who liked to down a six-pack ad then take his frustration with life out on his wife and young son. Surviving that had not been easy but it made Reigns the resilient man that he is and which the military found a use for. After his stint in the service, he worked for a few years for the Agency's SOG before going the contractor route.
It was while with SOG that Reigns became close friends, and almost more intimate, with then Station Chief Alexandra Hardy, now Deputy Director at the Agency and the one who picks up the phone to give yet another assignment to Reigns.
Reigns is an even 6 feet tall and weighs 175. His companion, Boomer, measures 6 feet tall and over 3 feel wide, all muscle. While Reigns is a pleasant fellow who can be sociable when he desires, Boomer is a far more taciturn man who uses one-word sentences when at all possible.