Hitman: Blood Money is a 2006 stealth video game developed by IO Interactive and published by Eidos Interactive. It was released in May 2006 for Microsoft Windows PlayStation 2 Xbox and Xbox 360. It is the fourth installment in the Hitman video game series and the sequel to 2004's Hitman: Contracts. The story follows cloned assassin Agent 47's efforts to bring down the Franchise a rival contract killing organization that is threatening his employers the International Contract Agency (ICA) and seeking to obtain the same cloning technology that created 47. Meanwhile a frame story presents 47's life and various contracts he carried out as narrated by a former FBI director to a journalist.