Smith and Smith are a firm of assassins. Founded in 1956 by Doctor James Smith and Sir Alexander Smith(no relation), it quickly rose to promenance within the field owing to the considerable talents of its founders. By the early 21st century Smith and Smith was widely recognized in the occult community as the best assassins in the world.
For the most part, when taking on a contract, Smith and Smith would subcontract one of the many talented free-lance assassins on its books. More difficult targets sometimes required the attention of a hand-picked team of assassins. Only the most well protected of targets required the attentions of one of the firm's in-house "artists" and of those, only those of startlingly massive resources and paranoia necessitated the attentions of one or both of the named partners.
Any target who successfully neutralized a Smith and Smith "artist" would be sent a letter of congratulations on accomplishing that extraordinarily difficult task. This is not to say Smith and Smith would then cancel the contract; they were quaint, not stupid.
They did not accept contracts on:
- People under the age of 21.
- Members of the Royal Family
- Pregnant women
