Nathan

Nathan Steven Price, son of Martin and Lorna Elizabeth Price, grew up never knowing whom his real parents were due to his biological father's job as a high level C.I.A. black ops operator. Nathan was raised undercover in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by agents known to him as Mara and Kevin Harper, a loving couple, in all respects, who've raised Nathan Harper responsibly, though with a bent on Nathan always handling himself well in a fight. (Discipline at home was often a full contact match against his dad, either in boxing, wrestling or martial arts, which enabled Nathan to become an easy standout on the Hampton High wrestling team and, later on, self-reliant.) His only birth certificate marks July 25, 1992, as Nathan's birth, but since this is likely a forgery, his true age can only be approximate. (After all, the document says State of Pennsylvania rather than Commonwealth. ) A trace memory remains of the killing of his biological mother from when Nathan was about 3 and 1/2 years old. It surfaces repeatedly in Nathan's life in the form of recurrent and unvarying nightmares, leaving Nathan with insomnia, impulsivity & rage issues. For these he makes regular visits to a therapist to help him keep his hostile impulses under self-control. Later he learns this therapist is yet another agent assigned to watch over and protect him. In his high school senior year, these truths all fall into the open after he comes upon a website of missing and abducted children. His picture is among them, and in trying to learn more, his foster parents are gunned down by professional hit men. Over the next few days (on the run, in which he handles himself pretty well against thugs and assassins), he finally learns who and what his biological father is, but is essentially left an orphan as his father deems it safer for his son if they never meet. Nathan's former therapist gets reassigned as his new mother to finish guiding him safely into adulthood and college. Show less «