Codename Universe

Joshua has a life. He's attending college. He's in love. A secret crime fighting agency brings him into their fold and gives him a new name, Bear. A world opens up with aliens, and drugs that can control the minds of the strongest men. They want Bear to find the leader of the biggest crime syndicate on Earth, Centurian. They make him point on missions, and it makes him feel like he's doing the right thing.

The agency brings Bear out of retirement. Partly he's one of the best, but more so because Centurian hackers got into the retirement records and everybody has been compromised. His first priority is bringing home the secret agents that are in danger. The team is job one, always has been, always will be. Things on Earth are still progressing deeper and deeper into anarchy. Nothing the Agency seems to do matters. Bear must find a way.

Bear has a happy life, experimenting on plants and learning botany. Apparently, the Agency is truly incapable of hiding any information from anyone, and Bear is no longer safe in retirement. The end game is rebels are organizing. The only thing they want is a fair shake. Actual rights. Bear agrees with them on many levels. He feels for them, but he is a government agent in every way and not a rebel. Or is he?