AGENT 47

Agent 47 is an agent with the I.C.A.

That acronym stands for the International Contract Agency, often just referred to as the Agency. It is a commercial organization that takes contracts for killing and uses its highly trained operatives to carry out the work. He is a clone, a genetically-created killing machine created from the DNA of five of the world's most deadly criminals in the world. Interestingly, on one of his very first sets of missions, he is sent to various places of the world to eliminate these same five people.

Since he is a clone, born in a laboratory and raised in a cloistered environment, he has no real history other than that of training with others similar to himself. For this reason, having not known anything else, he has not great interests and certainly no hobbies. Similarly, he has no family or friends or people with whom he would consider spending any time. Interestingly, he has no ties of any sort with those other Agents, likely because attachments were totally forbidden during training and afterwards, they were all loners.

Agent 47 is, like the other Agents he trained with, is traditionally seen completely bald. He has no discernible markings on his face and dresses in a tailored suit which is always dark colored to make him nearly unmemorable. Except, oddly enough, for a tattooed bar-code on the back of his head near the neck, a code which makes up his original designation: 640509-040147. I have no idea what these numbers stand for but the 'name' he uses, 47, comes from the final digits.

The only person with whom Agent 47 has any regular contact is Diana Burnwood, his handler at the Agency. She is the one who briefs him on the assignment, monitors his actions, and relays pertinent data via radio to him as needed. For a long time, she was just a disembodied voice but after a while the two would meet and if there was ever anyone knew anything about the man inside the suit, it would be she and with that knowledge would come some caring.

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In something with such a wide assortment of titles from different viewpoints, it is really rough to expect too much from this series and in general, that what we get - not too much.

The games certainly did well, going on scanty sales figures and the fact that there were so many of them.

The movies were a mixed bag. I liked them both but they were totally different so hard to pin down.

The two books were good from a well-written point of view (both authors are true professionals) and they let us into the mindset of the character but they were still coming across as novelizations so not much was expected or obtained.

Still, I doubt anyone would pick up any of the books/movies/comics/games and expect more than what they would get. In that case, okay!