"The irony for a man being employed to take out...'inconvenient' obstacles in the US military is he's an ex-Navy SEAL himself," Tom said, handing over a file. "Officially the records of his time in the US military were 'lost' in a fire but we managed to salvage a copy. He was one of the best of his unit, got a whole lot of press attention for saving the lives of his entire unit when they came under Taliban attack. But sometime after that he went AWOL and next thing we know a man calling himself Snake who looked a lot like Alexey was turning up at black market weapons fairs."