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In book 1, the agents meet the assassin Cass Hamish in the House of the Planes who tells them that she was tracking a mark who vanished into the Dreaming Palace, but that Ralso's gang connections make the place off-limits.
1) There is no further suggestion of who the mark is (eg, amount Pratchett's victims). Any suggestions as to who they were and why there was a hit on them? This is Absalom, not Qadira. I would assume that assassination is a fairly rare thing, and putting a hit on someone is serious business.
2) I'm not sure the gang connections bit makes that much sense. Ralso was a gang member, but she left that life behind to move across the city and join Pratchett. (Indeed, some of her old friends are trying to get her to rejoin her life of crime). Why would a gang declare that the hotel is a "safe zone" and that they would enforce that for Ralso? Which gang is it? (We have a ton of gangs listed in book #3, is it any of them?). Does Pratchett know? Does the gang or gang actually enforce this, eg, are they staking out the hotel looking for dodgy people going in and warning them off?
1) I think this may be the wrong assumption to make based on the adventure presented. Absalom is the biggest city in the world and there are many powerful people there that might want someone taken care of.
2) Most of this information is sourced from a sociology study and movies, but my understanding is that gang ties are deep, once a member-always a member. Going against a member of a separate gang or trespassing on their turf might start a war between the two gangs, which isn't what the assassin wanted.
Probably no one's specifically watching the hotel for this, but if anyone notices the assassination or iconic look of the assassin then word might get around that the group disrespected Ralso's connections.