It was set in the future and Argent was a mercenary who was a badass. He had these terminator-style arms in place of his regular owns. And he was just a general badass in the book.
I originally had another name in like 1999 for about a week but I lost the password. I got tied up with school and had to reregister a few months later, and Argent was the best thing I could come up with.