Sam Hyde, also known as 'The Shooter', Cem Hydül, Sam al Haid, and Cemir Al'Hydirim, is a mercenary and CEO of M.D.E., Million Dollar Extreme, a private military company. Trained in the French Foreign Legion as a sniper and urban combat specialist, he is known to be starting wars for profit all over Africa and the Middle East. He's involved in funding various small PMC's and private security firms who control or handle oil, mineral, and infrastructural assets in third world nations. He's believed to be expanding M.D.E. into South America. Recruiting from small villages and forging alliances with local right wing guerrilla movements and cartels involved in the narcotics trade.