"Pleased To Meet You...Won't You Guess My Name?"
On top of the Eiffel Tower, the reader meets Cell, a seemingly-unstoppable assassin who has just stopped a group of agents of Fakhri Fadi, a terrorist group, from blowing up the tower. He escapes after making quick work of a squadron of GIGN officers sent up to deal with him.
In Turin, Italy, Perry Greene, of the now-disbanded American Special Forces team "The Demons" sits in a cafe, sipping hot chocolate and watching the news report on Cell's Parisian battle. After a quick flirting exchange with the waitress, the two leave and head to Perry's hotel room, where they sleep together. Reflecting on his use of sex as a form of catharsis, Perry leaves in a hurry after waking up from a PTSD-influenced nightmare that deals with his last, tragic mission with the Demons two years ago. As he walks away from the hotel, he is attacked by a group of local Italian men, angry at his sexual relations with the waitress, in the metro. He is saved by Cell, who offers him a chance to help him overthrow an African warlord. The two leave, and Cell reveals his name to be Harlan Zinzāna.
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