Mistaken Identity · Espionage · Corporate Chaos
The Gordon Wren Files · Book Two
Nobody Briefed Gordon Wren
Everyone thinks he has a plan. Gordon would like to know what it is.
Gordon Wren only wants to get back to selling high-end kitchen appliances. Unfortunately, several intelligence agencies now believe he is a tactical genius.
The Misadventure Continues
Coming April 6, 2027
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Gordon has never heard of The Wren Method.
This concerns everyone except Gordon
An Accidental Legend Returns
The Government Thinks He Is a Genius
After surviving the events that turned an ordinary salesman into an accidental legend, Gordon returns to Halcyon expecting sales routes, product demonstrations, and the usual warranty arguments.
Instead, he gets a government badge, is pushed into a classified technology evaluation, and is treated as the architect of a mysterious strategy everyone keeps calling The Wren Method.
Gordon has never heard of it.
Soon, rival agencies, armed criminals, corporate managers, and highly paid officials wait for him to make the next brilliant move. Every attempt Gordon makes to explain that he has no plan only convinces them that his plan must be exceptionally clever.
Classified Tactical Doctrine
The Wren Method
A revolutionary strategic philosophy assembled entirely from Gordon’s complaints, sales experience, and attempts to leave the room.
Identify the Bad Route
Years of sales calls have taught Gordon that the route everyone recommends is usually the least practical.
Question the Equipment
Gordon knows unreliable machinery when he hears it making an expensive and deeply concerning noise.
Complain Specifically
Government officials interpret every detailed complaint as a carefully concealed tactical instruction.
Attempt to Leave
Gordon’s repeated efforts to escape are consistently mistaken for advanced strategic misdirection.
A Harmless Prototype. Allegedly.
An Appliance Recall Becomes a National Security Crisis
One Halcyon prototype connects Gordon to stolen intelligence, a dangerous criminal network, and an operation much larger than anyone expected.
Celia Morrow
Celia is trying to keep Gordon alive while determining whether his accidental success can survive another classified operation.
Government Officials
Every complaint, objection, and frustrated observation Gordon makes is carefully recorded as tactical doctrine.
Trevor and Halcyon
Gordon’s manager is convinced that the crisis represents an extraordinary public-sector sales opportunity.
The Gordon Wren Files · Book Two
His Greatest Weapon Is Competent Annoyance
With Celia Morrow trying to keep him alive, government officials interpreting his every complaint as tactical doctrine, and his manager Trevor convinced Gordon has finally landed the company a major public-sector account, Gordon is forced to rely on the only skills he actually has.
He knows bad routes, difficult customers, unreliable equipment, and exactly how much trouble can be caused by a poorly designed appliance.
Nobody Briefed Gordon Wren is the second book in The Gordon Wren Files, a fast-paced comedy spy thriller about mistaken identity, bureaucratic chaos, corporate absurdity, and one very ordinary man repeatedly being mistaken for someone far more competent than he feels.
New to Gordon Wren’s accidental espionage career? Begin with Book One: The Wrong Man at the Door →