title: Hitman: Enemy Within: A Novel
author:  William C. Dietz 
description: William C. Dietz is the bestselling author of HALO: The Flood plus thirty other science-fiction novels, some of which have been translated into German, Russian, and Japanese. He grew up in the Seattle area, served as a medic with the Navy and the Marine Corps, and graduatedfrom the University of Washington. Dietz worked as a surgical technician, newswriter, college instructor, television producer, and director of public relations for an international telephone company prior to embarking on a full-time writing career.
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  Hitman:
  
  
  Enemy Within
  
  
  
  
  
  William C. Dietz
  
  
  **Ballantine Books**
  
  
  Copyright © 2007 by Eidos
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  Dedication
  
  
  Acknowledgments
  
  # Chapter One
  
  
  Chapter Two
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter Three
  
  # Chapter Four
  
  
  Chapter Five
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter Six
  
  # Chapter Seven
  
  
  Chapter Eight
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter Nine
  
  # Chapter Ten
  
  
  Chapter Eleven
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter Twelve
  
  # Chapter Thirteen
  
  
  Chapter Fourteen
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter Fifteen
  
  # Chapter Sixteen
  
  
  Chapter Seventeen
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter Eighteen
  
  # Chapter Nineteen
  
  
  Chapter Twenty
  
  
  
  
  
  Dedication
  
  
  Marjorie, thank you for the dance, and everything to come.
  
  
  Acknowledgments
  
  
  Many thanks to Thomas Howalt, Jesper Donnis, Peter Fleckenstein, Keith
  Clayton, Tim Mak, and Steve Saffel for their help and guidance in putting this
  book together.It would have been impossible without you!
  
  # Chapter One
  
  
  THERHINERIVERVALLEY , NEARCOLOGNE,GERMANY
  
  
  It was a beautiful summer day as Aristotle Thorakis walked out of the castle’s
  gloomy great room onto the sun splashed terrace, and lo