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    Episode 8: Death Squad
    Episode 8: Death Squad
    Episode 8: Death Squad
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    Episode 8: Death Squad

    By Leigh Barker

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    Episode 8. Death Squad : Season 3 - Ethan Gill - The Orpheus Directive:
    Orpheus has sent a death squad to murder the unit’s families. It’s a ruthless attempt to take the elite unit out of the game. Ethan must continue his mission and trust his squad to look after their own.

    Orpheus, Dicky and the Russian president press ahead with their apocalyptic madness, driven by the manipulative excellence of the great puppet master.

    Winter has no family, never had time to make one, so goes to find Ethan’s ex, but it is a journey that can lead only to a bloody destination.

    Andie takes Ethan one a tiny step closer to finding Orpheus, but the sands are running out. For the whole world.

    Ethan is a veteran of a hundred bloody conflicts in hellholes across the world, but this is the first time he has ever been afraid - for the men he calls brothers. No mission has ever been so desperate; so catastrophic in failure. He must succeed. The lives of everyone rests on his shoulders, but none as heavily as those of his friends.

    This time his war is with one man and on home soil, but Orpheus holds all the cards. In his heart Ethan knows this time he might not win.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeigh Barker
    Release dateSep 18, 2018
    ISBN9780463747483
    Episode 8: Death Squad
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    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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      Episode 8 - Leigh Barker

      The Orpheus Directive

      (Season 1)

      (Episode 8)

      Death Squad

      Copyright 2018 Leigh Barker

      Published by Leigh Barker at Smashwords

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      ISBN: 9780463747483

      The Orpheus Directive

      Season 1

      (Episode 8)

      Leigh Barker

      Death Squad

      Orpheus had a decision to make, not the usual decisions he made almost every minute of every waking day, this one mattered. It was a simple choice: which wife, kid or whatever should he send the team to? Before he’d had him replaced, he’d let SecNav believe he had squads staking out all the families of his pet marines, but he didn’t have hit men on the payroll, well, not enough of them to cover six locations. So he had to decide where to send the few he had. It should’ve been a simple decision because with authority comes responsibility, so the lead troublemaker should be the natural choice, but his analysts told him Gill and his wife had been divorced for years and rarely spoke. Would he respond to a threat to her? That was the question. Or would it be better to send them to the next in line? He knew his name without having to check the folder on his desk. Gunnery Sergeant Charles Petty. Chuck to his friends. Of course.

      For a moment he wondered what it would be like to have friends to give him a pet name, instead of detestable brown-noses sucking up to get their way in this scheme or that. Of no importance. Friends are just crutches for little people who can’t stand on their own. No time for such weakness, not now or ever. Windy Greenberg. For Christ’s sake, that had been in first grade. And a friend? I don’t think so. Okay they’d played together, but never as equals. Until Windy’s mother had forbidden him from seeing him. He felt his jaw clench and made a physical effort to relax. A lifetime ago. But she’d paid for that. He’d seen to it. The Greenbergs, full of self-importance. Nothing more than trade. What was it? Jewelry? Diamonds or something. Not so up themselves when their suppliers no longer returned their calls and their main customers were suddenly fully stocked. It had taken years. What was it these people say? What goes around, comes back. Or something like that. Well, it had. Another tick in a box. A man, a real man should never allow a slight or insult to go unanswered. A sign of weakness that is like blood in the water to the others circling.

      Gunnery Sergeant Petty. He opened the file. A wife, daughter and a son. Having them butchered should send an appropriate message to the rest of the fools. They would be hamstrung by fear for which family would be next. No team, military or otherwise, could remain coherent with that threat hanging over them.

      He was tired of having to deal with such trivial nonsense. There were better things to attend to. Much better things.

      The Gulfstream had long gone. They left the SUV illegally parked at the airport with the weapons in the trunk. Dumping them in the mountains or dropping them in the river was never going to happen. Kids play in Pakistan just like anywhere else, and it was a odds

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