Andre promised to help Shuichi Akai after his mistake resulted in Shuichi Akai's rejection from the Black Organization.
The FBI laid a trap hoping to capture Gin at a warehouse where the meeting was supposed to take place, but because agent Andre Camel mistakenly revealed himself, the Organization discovered Shuichi's true allegiance and Gin never appeared.
Shuichi distinguished himself as an agent and two years prior to the current timeline received the codename Rye and was called to work under executive agent Gin. Five years prior to the current timeline, FBI agent Shuichi Akai infiltrated the Black Organization in Japan using the alias Dai Moroboshi and dated Akemi Miyano, one of their low-ranking members, in order to meet Shiho Miyano and use her influence to get into the Black Organization. Then the seven year old Jodie was placed in witness protection and later became an FBI investigator in her father's footsteps. The first known clash occurred when Vermouth killed Jodie's father and burned his house down to destroy the FBI files on her.
Forty-three volumes have been released as of May 2018.The FBI has been investigating the Black Organization for at least twenty years. Special editions that are drawn by Aoyama's assistants and do not belong to the main plot. Egmont licensed series in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, but dropped them either because low sales (Sweden), unknown reason (Denmark and Norway) or when Egmont closed its manga-publishing division in 2013 (Finland).