Agent Graham

Michael Graham was a prolific assassin and Syndicate operative who went rogue in 1998.

According to his file, Graham was born in the United States in 1949. Before he joined the Syndicate he worked for the CIA, although the nature of his work there is unknown even to the Syndicate. In the 1980s Graham joined the organisation after becoming disillusioned with the Agency. Markus Vohlt advised him to continue working for the CIA for the interests of the Syndicate, connecting him to "Mr. Johnson" and "Mr. Jackson" - two other double agents. Notably, Graham had a reported IQ of 172.

### Syndicate Power Struggle (1994)

On the 2nd of November 1994, Graham was present at the peace talks to resolve the conflict in Vienna. He had been instructed by Markus Vohlt to assassinate Lawrence Sterling, The Forgotten's lieutenant. After Sterling had revealed to Anderson that The Forgotten was in Damascus, Graham opened fire with a supressed marksman rifle - killing Lawrence, his son and severely wounding Afanas Morozov (who had been working as Lawrence's security). Two days later, Graham garrotted Johnson to death in Syria on Markus Vohlt's orders for siding with the Forgotten in the conflict.

### Defection

On April 31st 1998, Graham unexpectedly aborted a undercover assignment in Boston and disappeared without a trace carrying a hard-drive containing vital information. By May 10th the Syndicate had tracked him down to a small village in Jamaica. When a squad of SOAR operatives approached the village Graham picked them off one by one with elaborate traps hidden in the trees and a rifle. After reaching Graham's hideout in the village Anderson learned that Graham would be selling the hard drive to a revolutionary group in Cuba.

Cuba - to be added

The next day Graham reached a pharmaceutical production facility in Louisiana. He broke into the warehouse, silently killed several security guards before sabotaging the equipment. Intentionally, Graham triggered the alarms by shooting the glass protecting a sample of the compliance drug. When this lured The Chemist and Jackson out of their office into the warehouse, he opened fire on both. The Chemist was killed immediately with a headshot but Jackson was neutralised with a bullet to the knee. Before Graham could execute him Anderson arrived and stunned Graham by shooting him in his bulletproof vest. Thinking quickly Graham shot at a pressurized container of dangerous chemicals, causing it to detonate and painfully burning Jackson in the process. The fire spread quickly and covered his escape.

### Death

By 2005, Graham's mental state had significantly deteriorated. Consumed by paranoia, he had begun abducting and "interogating" random civilians who he supected of being ex-Syndicate operatives. In December 2005, The Handler coerced Afanas Morozov into eliminating Graham, intending on dealing with Morozov after the task was complete. She also leaked intelligence about the covert operation to Jackson, seeking revenge against Graham for disfiguring him and killing several of his colleauges, including Johnson. Graham was tracked down to an abandoned building on the outskirts of Inverness, Scotland. During his interogation of Morozov, whom Graham had subduded and captured the night before, Jackson arrived at the scene. Upon seeing Graham was armed (he was forcing his captive to play Russian Roulette), Jackson shot Graham several times in the chest - killing him. His final words were a quiet plea to his old comrade, words that fell flat after years of remorseless killings.

### Appears In

* The Ceasefire
* The Purgatory
* The Traitor
* The Revolutionary
* The Miasma
* The Reclamation