Clan: Season 3: Episode 4 - Calum's Agent

By Leigh Barker

Clan: Season 3, Episode 4. Calum’s Agent
The English know Calum and the fishermen stole the warship. Now the two heavily armed frigates are under full sail and in pursuit of the little merchant ship.
There is no escape, the frigates will be in cannon range miles before the highlanders reach Inverness.
Calum has found his true love, but the warships will be upon them before he can realize it.

Big John has one last desperate plan. A plan that will surely kill them all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leigh Barker
• Release date: Mar 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370231553

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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Clan

(Season 3)

(Episode 4)

Calum's Agent

Copyright 2017 Leigh Barker

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ISBN: 9781370231553

Calum’s Agent

Adriana stepped out onto the deck and looked around quickly. There were sailors on deck, but they were leaning on the bulwark, watching the warship rolling on the swell. Awaiting its fate.

She pulled her pistol from her belt and checked that it was primed and ready to go. It was no surprise it was in perfect working order; she was a king’s agent and her survival depended on anticipating the unexpected.

What she was going to do with the pistol, she hadn’t worked out yet. She concentrated on making her way forward. To the guns. She was less than ten feet from the canvas covering the cannon when two sailors stepped out from behind the superstructure and smiled at her.

Where’d you come from, little girl? the one with a gold earring said. And looked her over slowly.

I saw her first, the little one with black teeth said. I get to go first.

She ducked between them and started to raise her pistol towards the powder kegs showing beneath the canvas, but they grabbed her arms and pulled her back. Just as the covers were pulled back off the cannon to reveal the four-man crew waiting for the order to fire. She looked past them at the warship. It was still too far away. At three hundred yards on a pitching deck, the effective range of double-loaded grape was at best fifty yards. And these guns were in the hands of unskilled thieves.

The two sailors pulled her backwards and the gold-earring wearer pawed at her breasts. She pushed her pistol around her side and low, and fired.

The sailor screamed.

Fire! Adriana shouted. Let them have it!

The gunners, already on edge and excited, did as they were ordered and fired both guns. The charge of grapeshot was intended to act like a big shotgun fired at close range, a wide sweeping hail of lead, but double loaded and out of range, the attack was no more than a loud noise and billowing smoke.

Adriana turned quickly, reversed her pistol and rapped the butt on the brow of the sailor with the rotten teeth. He closed his eyes and took a long nap.

The other sailor was on his knees, sobbing quietly and clutching his groin. She took pity on the man and cracked the butt of her pistol into his temple. Then she crouched behind a hatch cover, looked around slowly and moved back towards the door to the lower deck. She needed to get out of the open in case she was seen, but more importantly because of what was about to happen.

Calum saw the two chase guns fire from the bow of the approaching merchant ship and instinctively ducked, as did everybody else. Nothing happened