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Douglas A. Gosselin

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Douglas A. Gosselin—former airborne infantryman, law-enforcement officer, and federal contractor turned federal-agency consultant—channels a life spent inside contingency operations conducted in clandestine maneuvers into stories that pull back the curtain on Colonial America and its Revolutionary War espionage. His boots-on-the-ground perspective brings the methods of the Culper Spy Ring and other era-defining spycraft sharply into focus, framing an unflinching look at intelligence history through the timeless lenses of loyalty, strategy, and survival.

Pawn To King’s End

On the edge of empire, survival is a game of strategy—and the price of freedom is often paid in secrets.

In 1755, as Colonial America trembles under British ambition, the Crown’s brutal expulsion of the Acadians shatters countless lives. For Clément Gosselin, the forests of Nova Scotia become both refuge and battleground. There—amid Mi’kmaq allies who master the land and the silent language of spycraft—he learns that every footstep is a move on a hidden board.

But the conflict widens. Whispers of Revolutionary War resistance echo across the Atlantic, and Clément is drawn into the era’s first currents of intelligence history. Recruited for covert operations and trained in the ruthless arts that will one day define the Culper Spy Ring, he must navigate a labyrinth of shifting loyalties where one wrong gesture can cost a people their future.

At the center of it all looms a man known only as Mr. Smith—an unsettling strategist whose mastery of espionage offers salvation at a staggering price. Freedom, Clément discovers, isn’t wrested from tyranny by muskets alone. Sometimes it’s bartered in dark rooms, brokered with shadows, and secured by secrets too dangerous to speak.

Survival means striking bargains with forces you barely comprehend—and gambling that the next move is yours, not theirs.

Phantom Patriot: Degrees of Spies

Book Two • Secrets of the Republic Series • The Origin of Mr. Smith

Before he was the spectral strategist known as Mr. Smith—the unseen hand behind Revolutionary War espionage in Colonial America—he was Jean-Paul Martineau.

Born to a father who swore that silence can cut deeper than steel, Jean-Paul loses home, name, and country in a single night of betrayal. Exiled to the shadowed courts of eighteenth-century Europe, he apprentices himself to masters of spycraft, exchanging forged passports for kingmakers’ secrets and refining the dark art of covert operations long before musket smoke drifts across the Atlantic.

But vengeance soon evolves into mission. Rumors of rebellion stir in distant colonies, and Jean-Paul senses a wider board to play. From encrypted letters that will one day nourish the Culper Spy Ring to invisible networks that rewrite intelligence history, he learns to move entire nations with nothing more than a whispered word.

Revenge sharpens into purpose. The man who emerges from the labyrinth of spies is no longer Jean-Paul—he is Mr. Smith, and the game of empires has only just begun.

THE DOCTRINE OF SHADOWS

Book Three • Secrets of the Republic Series

A historical spy thriller for readers of political intrigue, secret history, and psychological suspense.

In post-Revolutionary War Colonial America, freedom survives only through quiet espionage. Before the CIA, MI6, Mossad, or the Deuxième Bureau—there was the Doctrine.

In 1785, beneath the Pennsylvania State House, John Jay, John Adams, and a cryptic strategist known simply as Smith launch the fledgling republic’s first true program of covert operations—an audacious successor to the wartime Culper Spy Ring that will carve a new chapter in intelligence history.

Unofficial. Untraceable. Unsanctioned.

Ten children are spirited from farms and port cities, placed with loyal families, and drilled in ruthless spycraft. They will stand guard where treaties fail.

But one child was never chosen. He was delivered—and his very existence could turn the Doctrine’s shadows against itself.

FALSE FOREWORD

A Strategically Declassified Manuscript of Narrative Containment Protocol FF-AIW-42.5-DG-LS

What if the most lethal weapon of the twenty-first century is weaponized storytelling—a form of narrative warfare engineered to look like art? This isn’t a leak. It’s a deliberate rupture, forced into daylight by triangulating open-source disclosures, operational metadata, and the algorithmic propaganda trails even clandestine services can no longer erase.

False Foreword is no ordinary book; it’s a psychological cyber-thriller built as a cognitive structure—part field manual, part narrative virus. Framed as literature. Forged like a weapon.

Inside: recursive syntax traps, symbolic misalignments, and embedded influence payloads stress-tested in unstable cognitive economies—where belief is deadlier than bullets. Every paragraph is a live-fire drill in cognitive influence ops, every cadence a cipher of linguistic espionage. This is AI-driven spy fiction that doesn’t invite you to read; it drafts you into the experiment.

You won’t turn pages. You’ll trigger systems. And once the story deploys, nothing—including you—stays outside the blast radius.

The Hollow That Ate the Sun

Some hauntings don’t come from houses—they rise from the water.

Set in the sweltering sprawl of 1970s South Houston, this southern gothic novel is also a bayou mystery thriller, stitching together the grit of 1970s Houston fiction with the tenderness of coming-of-age brotherhood. Thick with dark southern suspense, the story follows four Gosselin brothers as they trace a hidden map through a landscape that remembers everything they’d rather forget.

Along the banks of Buffalo Bayou—where rusted fences guard sunburned secrets—this Buffalo Bayou story proves that silence can echo louder than any storm. Part of the expanding library of Douglas A. Gosselin books, The Hollow That Ate the Sun shows that some legacies don’t drown; they wait beneath the surface for someone brave enough to look down.

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