Mandate of Shadows
Book One of Mandate of Shadows Series
In Johannesburg, investigate journalist Daniela Vos witnesses an assassination that uncovers the Mandatum Umbrae—a secret shadow government established under the 1885 Partition Protocol that never dissolved.
They control the continent’s future through ideological infiltration. To expose the truth, Daniela must now outrun the oldest, deadliest conspiracy on Earth.
About C.J. VOSS
C.J. Voss writes fiction where history, power, and human ambition collide — and where systems built in shadow shape the world long after their architects are gone. Blending meticulous research with speculative edge, Voss explores the architecture of empire, the language of control, and the cost of survival.
Mandate of Shadows is the first in a planned series following a journalist’s descent into a conspiracy embedded in Africa’s aid and intelligence networks. Voss’s current project, Carbon Child, turns toward speculative climate fiction, imagining a near-future society where carbon guilt is measured, inherited, and enforced.
MANDATE DOSSIER
Access Level: Restricted
Reference: Operation Umbrae
“Truth isn’t lost—it’s buried.”
In the field, journalist Daniela Vos follows a trail of encrypted files, vanished donors, and silenced witnesses across a continent where aid hides empire.
This file is the first trace.