Eitan Shafir

**Eitan Shafir** is a wealthy, high level drug dealer and supplier who operates in Southern California.

## Biography

Eitan Shafir is Jewish and from Israel, carrying a heavy Israeli accent. He is a successful drug dealer, living in a mega mansion in Encino, California with an infinity pool, rows of cars and aspiring models on his arm. As a drug dealer, Eitan makes sure to stay off law-enforcement's notice, which included quality checking his drugs so that he doesn't kill his clientele. One time, someone had paid off a debt to him in what was supposed to be heroin cut with fentanyl, but it had passed through too many hands to be considered clean.

### Working with Len Beacon

Eitan acquires and deals out product to his lower-level workers, one of which included Leonard Beacon. As is typical of higher-level drug dealers, Eitan had a reputation for violence when money is lost. One time, when a banker skipped out on his payment, Len freaked out on Alex, forcing her to cover the cash in fear of answering to Eitan for the lost money. Nevertheless, the Ground Zero crew would go to barbecues at Eitan's place. Alex Stern would periodically steal hot dog buns from these parties so that she would have more to eat later. In any case, Eitan had a low opinion of Len Beacon. He believed him lazy and degenerate, which made him an amateur drug dealer and lousy business man. As a result, Eitan only trusted Len to deal out weed, never getting him more of the harder drugs like Adderall or oxy that make more money.

### Ariel's visit Last Summer

Len Beacon's status was subject to change when Ariel, Eitan’s relative, came to visit from Israel and took a liking to him. Eitan deferred to Ariel, as he violent and desired to see violence inflicted on others. When he arrived, Eitan sent his girlfriend at the time Inger away from his house in Encino, along with a few other girls. Eitan's parties at his Encino mansion grew more frantic and elaborate in order to keep Ariel entertained.

In the aftermath of the massacre at Ground Zero, Eitan had run all over Los Angeles, trying to find out who’d killed his cousin. Eventually, Eitan snuck passed the police guards to see Alex in the hospital, a day after Dean Elliot Sandow's visit. He started to interrogate her, but sensing this, Alex readily confessed to killing all of them. Eitan was shocked and then exasperated, believing her to be a junkie. Eitan had somehow found out that Alex was tested for high levels of fentanyl when they had found her; knowing this, she would've been near dead at the time of the supposed crime. Eitan supposes that Ariel was just at the wrong place at the wrong time, and Alex's asshole boyfriend probably having pissed someone off to get killed. Dismissing her, Eitan states that she owes him six thousand dollars for the fentanyl and leaves. After negotiating her admission to Yale and Lethe with Elliot Sandow, Alex was able to pay the money.

## Personal Attributes

### Personality

Eitan is a shrewd and situationally violent, able to navigate the world to ruin other people's lives without facing the consequences. While polite in many situations, Eitan Shafir would never be described as nice.

### Physical Description

Eitan prefers tailored suits and has a heavy Israeli accent.

## Trivia

* While his surname is 'Shafir' in *Ninth House*, he is referred to as Eitan Harel in *Hell Bent.*
	+ Shafir might have been the name Eitan uses when doing business with local California drug dealers.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ninth House Chapter 12 (Winter)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Ninth House Chapter 19 (Last Summer)
3. ↑ Ninth House Chapter 5 (Winter)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 *Ninth House* Chapter 29 (Early Spring)