Reza Zaydan

CICADA

Walter Menard (Hired mercenary)

Vito Đurić (Gunrunner)

**Reza Zaydan** (Also known as "*The General*") is a Royal Moroccan Army General and one of Agent 47's targets in the *HITMAN™* mission A Gilded Cage.

## Background

*Reza Zaydan belongs to one of Marrakesh's wealthiest and most prominent families.*

*His grandfather built a multi-million dollar perfume empire, and his father, a former secretary of state, groomed his children for office from an early age. His older brother is a diplomat and his sister a U.N. lawyer. The military, however, was where the young Reza Zaydan found his true calling.*

*Propelled by equal amounts nepotism, political savvy, and steel-minded efficiency, he reached the rank of general by the young age of 49.*

*The public knows Zaydan as a cultivated, charming man with a weakness for beautiful women. A passionate bachelor, he has dated a long line of models, actresses and athletes to the delight of the Moroccan public.*

*A man of independent means, Zaydan is clearly driven by a lust for power rather than money or fame.*

*To his inner circle, Zaydan is recognized as aloof, ruthless and deceptive. Although he is an accomplished soldier - he led the strike team that apprehended the Mongoose in 2007 - Zaydan is well versed in political intrigue and prefers to dispatch his rivals with cunning and deception. It should be noted that there's some question whether he actually accomplished any of his alleged deeds as his own soldiers believe they are made up with his only combat experience being "enhanced interrogations.*
*Reza Zaydan is a man who keeps his enemies close and his friends under surveillance.*

## Trivia

* During A Gilded Cage, Reza Zaydan places a phone call to Erik Olander and they discuss their plan to kill Strandberg by throwing him off his plane en-route to Argentina.
* Zaydan is currently dating Ellinor Westrup, a model working for IAGO. In a phone call to her friend, Westrup states her dislike of him and how she may break up with him soon.
	+ However, according to the prisoner in the school, Reza's last girlfriend was a model named Raquel. This may have been an earlier name for Westrup or a different model.
* He has graduated from the United States Military Academy, though this is evidently not enough to convince at least one soldier in the school of his strategic competence.
* He is able to recognize Agent 47 through all Military disguises on the map save for the Prisoner's outfit.
* It has been said that possibly, he is subtly hinted to be somehow connected to Dalia Margolis of IAGO, both by his raid on The Mongoose (which was made possible by Margolis' intel during her Mossad years) and his romantic links to several models.
* According to a phone call of Kong Tuo-Kwang, Zaydan provided info to him. This can be heard in A House Built on Sand. Kwang doesn't mention him as dead, proving that the mission takes place before the events of A Gilded Cage.
* His favorite food is salmon with vegetables.
* If held at gunpoint, Zaydan will either attempt to bribe or dare 47 to kill him, stating "lesser men have tried to kill me and I have sent them straight to Hell".
* He is only a pawn of Providence, and he knows nothing about the inner workings or higher goals of the organization. Providence merely uses him to exercise power in this corner of the world; after his coup, they will be able to "put another pin in their map" as he puts it. He accepts this subordinate status in stride, remarking that "everyone answers to someone."
* Reza is Polysexual.