<div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: andale mono;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 16pt;"><em>Ryan Mercer</em></span></span></div><hr/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8833/justinhartleyasryanmerc.jpg)<br/></div><br/><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Age</strong>: 26<br/><strong>Gender</strong>: Male<br/><strong>Orientation</strong>: Heterosexual<br/><strong>Position in Club</strong>: Undercover Cop/ The New Guy<br/><strong>Specialty</strong>: Pursuit Driving, Undercover Operations, Persuasion, good with handguns<br/><strong>Personality</strong>: Ryan is a fun loving, wise cracking, doesn't-take-life-too-seriously kind of guy, using humour to defuse a situation or to taunt a person in an attempt to throw them off guard. Gifted with looks and a silver tongue he's usually able to use both to talk his way out of a situation...or into one depending on the circumstance. <br/><br/><strong>History</strong>: Born and raised in New York City, Ryan comes from a long line of police officers and was groomed by his family to become another great cop in the Mercer family history however becoming a police officer was far from Ryan’s mind in his youth.<br/><br/>Ryan always had a love of cars and often spent his weekends at his uncle’s garage fixing them up. When he was 15 he attended a local street race and immediately fell in love with the culture and attended as many as he could, eventually participating in them when he could drive.<br/><br/>However one night shortly after his 18th Birthday, after having won a race Ryan was busted and hauled away to the local precinct. Ryan was given an ultimatum by his parents and the Captain, either join the academy, become a cop and have the incident buried as a warning or go to jail…it was a simple choice for Ryan.   <br/><br/>His father had trained him as he was growing up in skills to hone his memory, how to tell when someone was lying and a few other techniques which gave him a slight advantage when he enrolled at the academy. He graduated in the top ten of his class and excelled at pursuit driving, with his trainers often describing Ryan as “a natural behind the wheel.” <br/><br/>Joining the NYPD Ryan realised that he did actually enjoy being a cop and proved that he was just as good as cop as the rest of his family. When he was 22, Ryan was assigned to an undercover unit tasked with infiltrating a New York street racing gang suspected of branching out into the drug trade and to gather evidence to take them down. It took two years for Ryan to work his way up in the gang and gather the evidence he needed before handing the information off to his superiors, the evidence he gathered was enough to put the gang behind bars and shut down their operation for good. After that case Ryan spent the next two years on various undercover assignments during which time he took down a smuggling ring, foiled series of bank robberies and brought down one of the largest gangs in Brooklyn.<br/><br/>His success on undercover assignments drew the attention of the FBI who offered him a job as a field agent, which he accepted. A few months after he transferred he was sent to Seattle and tasked with bringing down the local Triads, who have risen in the Seattle underworld and involved in pretty much every criminal activity you could think of. <br/><br/>The FBI learned that one of the local street racing gangs were the go to crew for the Triads when it came to stealing the cars they needed and given Ryan’s skill behind the wheel it was decided that he would go undercover and infiltrate the crew in order to bring the triads down.<br/><br/>With the FBI running a background check on the crew Ryan decided that trying to persuade Piper “Cori” Adams, the crew's co-leader would probably be easier to persuade than Taras, the other co-leader. It took several weeks of a combination of racing, his charming personality and enough shots of vodka to probably cause some liver damage later in his life, but she eventually brought him into the crew so as far as Ryan was concerned it was worth it, however despite being part of the crew for over a month now Ryan is still very much the new guy and has his work cut out for him.<br/><br/>Ryan's car of choice is a black 2006 Mercedes SLR McLaren.<br/><br/><br/><strong>Physical Description </strong>: 6’3 with spiky blonde hair, brown eyes with a slim but athletic build. He prefers to wear a suit jacket, t-shirt and jeans.<br/><br/><strong>Extra Info</strong>:Despite his jovial personality Ryan does come from a family of cops and as such is a dedicated, by-the-book officer who firmly believes in the law and that nobody is above it, although given the nature of his job as an undercover cop, he is willing to bend...or break it when he has too. </div><br/><div align="center">(http://imageshack.us/a/img402/8306/2165628127.jpg)</div><br/><br/>