Hitman: Enemy Within
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| Author | William C. Dietz |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Hitman |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Del Rey Books |
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Publication date
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August 28, 2007 |
| Media type | Print Paperback |
| Pages | 320 pp |
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| OCLC | 149573908 |
| Followed by | Hitman: Damnation |
Hitman: Enemy Within is the first novel in the Hitman series. It was written by William C. Dietz and released on August 28, 2007, from Del Rey Books. The novel's plot is set between Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money and revolves around a rival murder-for-hire organization, known as Puissance Treize (French for "Power Thirteen"), attempting to destroy Agent 47's employer, the International Contract Agency (ICA). The book's tagline is: "The clone assassin has been played long enough – now it’s more than a game."
Aristotle Thorakis visits Pierre Douay at his castle on the Rhine River, Germany. Thorakis, in desperate need of a 500 million euro loan, agrees to betray the ICA in exchange for Douay loaning him the money.
Near Yakima, Washington, 47 is assigned to eliminate biker leader Big Kahuna. He first kills Mel Johnson, a member of his gang, by rigging a giant fiber wire to a bridge that slices off the top of his head. His plan is to impersonate Johnson, attend a biker summit at an abandoned barnyard, and kill "Big K" with a fatal batch of fentanyl-laced heroin that 47 knew Kahuna would sample. Everything went according to plan until Cassandra Murphy, disguised as a biker babe named Marla, warned Kahuna and exposed 47. This results in a large shootout that only 47 and Murphy get out of alive. 47 leaves with the biker gang's DVR full of surveillance footage, which he uploads to Diana in hopes of identifying "Marla".
Cassandra Murphy meets with her superior from Puissance Treize, an ex-KGB official named Mrs. Kaberov, who is extremely dissatisfied with the Yakima incident but gives Murphy a second chance at the request of Ali bin Ahmed bin Saleh Al-Fulani. Kaberov presents Murphy an elegantly gift-wrapped bullet in a box, and tells her "It's part of a matching set. And, if you fuck up again, you'll get the second one right between the eyes."
The next morning, 47 is greeted at a diner in Yakima by Mr. Nu. He explains that the ICA is trying to root out an unknown traitor, and presents 47 with information on Cassandra Murphy. 47 stakes out Murphy's house-boat docked on Lake Union in Seattle, from a neighboring boat whose owner 47 had sedated. As Murphy came home to the boat, 47 successfully rushed in after her and forced her to turn off her house alarm. After restraining her in a chair, Murphy manages to free herself after being bound and gagged by 47. She narrowly escaped alive. 47 calls Diana, aboard the company Jean Danjou yacht in Greece, to reveal that he placed tracking devices on Murphy's clothes and purse.
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