Episode 7: The Hitman

By Leigh Barker

Season 1, Episode 7. The Hellfire Legacy: The Hitman

A Bitesize 1-hour read.

Ethan takes on the hitman head-on. Baxter is no amateur and Ethan needs every skill he has ever learnt if he is going to survive.

Christian is in a hurry to close the deal to supply the US government with his new technology, but bureaucracy frustrates his every attempt. He needs to do something to move it along. Something drastic.

And all the time, the mole in the FBI is leaking information to Faraj and now to Christian.

FBI Agent in Charge, Dryer is convinced Ethan is helping SecNav’s political ambitions by eliminating the opposition, and will do anything to prove it. And if he can’t, then he’ll find a permanent way of stopping him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leigh Barker
• Release date: Nov 2, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310167454

Leigh Barker

Leigh was born in Dudley in the middle of England. He has been a merchant seaman, a (useless) electronics salesman, a programmer, and a business analyst. And now he is a full-time writer, but that doesn't make him a bad person.He is presently writing 4 series:Clan, following the adventures of Calum Maclean as he tries to avoid the Bonnie Prince but still protect his beloved Highlands.The Hellfire Legacy Series follows US Marine Master Sergeant Ethan Gill and his team as they take on the jobs too hot for other special forces. They go where they're sent; South America, Middle East, Korea, but their most dangerous missions are on US soil.Volume #1: A Whisper of ArmageddonVolume #2: The Hellfire LegacyVolume #3: The Orpheus DirectiveEden, a three-volume series -Trinity is at war with Lucid, the son of Lucifer, and he will do whatever it takes to win. The Archangel Gabriel has an army but he needs more. He needs heroes, but they are few and far between. Which is why he gets Dylan and co. Not too much luck in Heaven then.Volume #1: Eden's Last HeroVolume #2: WinterwoodVolume #3: Requiem for Eden.Soldiers is set in 1914 and follows John Regret and his 12-man squad on their suicidal mission to find and destroy the German howitzer nicknamed Big Bertha. Find it before it drops it's thousand-pound shells on the allied army retreating across France. A seemingly hopeless mission that just cannot fail.Other occasional series include:Anarchy, the 'completely true' stories of men doing what men do when there's nobody to keep them in check. Create mayhem and behave like monkeys on speed.Coffee Break Reads - each issue has 5 stories short enough to read while taking a break from life. A mix of adventure, love, disaster, and fun. All with one thing in common; for a moment they transport the reader to another world.Episode 1 of each Season is free and can be picked up with other free books at:https://leighwbarker.com/my-library/Just copy the link above and paste it into your browser and you're there...

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The Hellfire Legacy

(Episode 7)

The Hitman

Copyright 2015 Leigh Barker

Published by Leigh Barker at Smashwords

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ISBN: 9781310167454

The Hitman

Ethan watched Rayford’s eyes and knew he was getting ready to fire. There was no way in hell he was just going to lie there and let the agent shoot him without trying to do something. Okay, against a trained agent, doing something wasn’t going to achieve much. But he was going to try.

Rayford took a breath. He wanted this to be up close and personal.

You got a special god, Master Fuckin’ Sergeant? he said and stepped forward for an easier shot. Because if you do, now’s the time to—

Rayford slammed forward like he’d been hit by a truck, his chest exploding in a crimson spray.

Ethan had seen the effects of a .50 cal often enough to know instantly that this is what he was looking at, but didn’t stop to think about it. He rolled to his left and made a space for Rayford’s body to flop down.

Sniper! he shouted and scrambled on his hands and knees behind the aircon extractors lining the edge of the rooftop. He dropped to his stomach and crawled along next to the three-foot-square vent pipes just as a round punched a hole right where he’d been lying.

Mancini, he shouted under the ventilation duct.

What? Mancini said, but his voice was shaking.

You dead?

Not last time I checked, but Rayford’s blown to hell.

Yeah, Ethan said. I’m all broken up about that.

Ethan?

Yeah, all friendly now he was about to get his head splattered.

Ethan moved again, crawling further along the duct.

You see the shooter? Mancini’s voice was high and strained.

No. Hang on.

He got to his knees and peered carefully through the gap between two vertical ducts. A hole the size of his fist burst out of the duct, like the alien in the mess hall. He hadn’t heard the shot, so the rifle was suppressed.

Shit. This guy is good, he said to the hole and moved again.

There was nowhere left but the small space behind the extractor fan in the corner of the roof. He started to move that way, then stopped. The shooter had been up there, the sniper rifle he’d left as bait showed that. So he’d have scouted the roof and would know its layout. He glanced at the tight space. If he went in the corner, there’d be no avoiding the next shot. He backed up, turned and retraced his crawl back to the first hole, got to his knees and looked through it. It’s angle pointed right at the shooter.

He moved his head out of the way in case the sniper had him in the crosshairs, and from the top floor of the office building just across the street,