Raymond Park is a British actor, stuntman and martial artist, best known for his playing the physical part of Darth Maul in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Toad in X-Men, Snake-Eyes in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and Edgar on Heroes.
I decided to set this in 1999 because later parts of the book took place at the same time as The Phantom Menace. It might be better to split this into a trilogy because there are three parts.