Lone Wolf: Hellfire: Season 3: - Episode 1 (The Orpheus Directive)

By Leigh Barker

The Orpheus Directive: Season 1, Episode 1. Lone Wolf (A 1-hour Bitesize Read)
Another rollicking Ethan Gill adventure!
Marine Master Sergeant Ethan Gill is a rare breed: a true hero, with skills honed in the bloodiest hellholes on the planet.

He’d retired but SecNav has called his squad back to active duty, to go where Special Forces can’t, or won’t. To make the impossible look easy.

The mission to retrieve intelligence from a drug lord in Bolivia should have been an easy in and out, but no one could have known what it would unearth.

An easy gig that’s about to launch our hero into the most dangerous mission of his war-scarred life.

Every conflict has a hero. And every battle its casualties.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leigh Barker
• Release date: Nov 2, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370005284

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 Orpheus Directive

(Season 1)

(Episode 1)

Lone Wolf

Copyright 2016 Leigh Barker

Published by Leigh Barker at Smashwords

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ISBN: 9781370005284

Lone Wolf

Ethan Gill brushed as much dust off his old woolen overcoat as he could reach without drawing attention to it, and looked up slowly to see the PA watching him with a practiced blank expression. He recognised her from the last time he’d been invited to the Pentagon by SecNav. She didn’t show any recognition, but she remembered him, he knew it.

SecNav opened his office door, crooked a finger, and Ethan crossed the small reception area and followed him in, after giving the PA a friendly wink. She scowled at him, but Hollywood wouldn’t be calling her any time soon. He’d seen the glint in her eye. And truth be told, she was cute, for somebody who looked like she could freeze steam if she chose to.

That job your squad did down in Texas, SecNav said, pointing at one of the chairs by his huge desk.

The scumbags who killed the kids?

SecNav frowned. Did people really say scumbags? Something to ask later. He sat in his leather chair and leaned back. He looked tired, but he was a government employee, so that came with the territory.

"Yes, the…scumbags. Good job."

Ethan shrugged but said nothing. Five rapists dead didn’t even begin to even the score. The two women they’d raped and killed had been on their first liberty from their first ship. So, not even close to even.

You think you can manage another mission? SecNav leaned his elbows on his desk.

Ethan waited for a moment, but that was all. Could maybe do with a vacation and a massage first, but I’m probably good for another mission. One more. Maybe.

SecNav nodded. That’s what I thought. None of us getting any younger.

Ethan let that go. Bouncing SecNav’s head off his desk a few times would probably be frowned on. By the burly men who’d come to drag his ass off to Leavenworth.

Nice trip to the sunshine, SecNav said, struggling to hide his smile. Good for the joints, I hear.

Iraq? Ethan said.

Closer to home. SecNav left it for a beat. Bolivia.

Great.

Beautiful country, Ethan said.

Was. Now it’s infested with all manner of vermin.

I hear that. Ethan brushed a patch of dust off his sleeve.

SecNav watched him steadily. You remember you’re back on active duty, right?

I do, sir, Ethan said, continuing his hopeless effort to rejuvenate his moth-eaten coat. "Hence the sir bit. Sir."

SecNav laughed a short snorting laugh he cut off quickly so as not to encourage the man. Your uniform at the cleaners?

Thought I’d go incognito.

Disguised as a tramp, you mean?