Craig Black (Elusive Target)

This article is about the character featured in the unused Elusive Target, The Author. For the Patient Zero target, see Craig Black.

Craig Black (also known as "The Author") is an unused Elusive Target in HITMAN™. He would have appeared in the mission Landslide.

Background[]

Craig Black is the renowned yet reluctant author credited with the enormously successful Cassandra Snow Young Adult novels. He leapt into the public eye with the first book Cassandra Snow: New England Wiccan three years ago after a number of widely ignored noir science-fiction novels. Since then the so-called “Snow-verse” novels have dominated his career, overshadowing any attempt to branch out into other genres."

Regardless, the renowned Cassandra Snow has become a beloved icon, spawning a spin-off TV series (Shadow and Snow) and two movie trilogies (with inevitable controversy over the casting of the titular character), so regardless of how much the author may detest the character, his misery seems set to continue.

― Target Intel

Trivia[]

As opposed to the used Craig Black, who seems to have actually written the novels, this Craig Black had a ghost writer do it for him instead.
According to the also unused mission briefing, he earned 58 million USD in 2019.
He is one of 10 unused Elusive Targets, the others being: Orlando Caruso, Renzo Caruso, Oybek Nabazov, Brother Akram, Brother Akmal, Brother Ansar, Bradley Paine and Owen Cage.
- All of the above except the Caruso brothers were reused for the Patient Zero Campaing, with Akram and Ansar swapping models along with removing the target status from Akmal and Ansar.

Gallery[]

The Author - Briefing - Cut Hitman 2016 Elusive Target