The Phoenix Paradox

About the Book

THE PHOENIX PARADOX

Having narrowly missed getting a Democrat into the White House in 2004, the mainstream media continue their attacks against the Republicans.

To insure that the next president is a Democrat, a diverse group of media owners form a secret organization through which they plan to place their own candidate in the Oval Office.

The Phoenix Group's agenda is jeopardized when The New York Bugle's owner, a Democratic supporter, dies suddenly. His son, Parker H. Rolle, inherits the Bugle and discovers what it has been, a stooge of the Democrats.

Parker Rolle balks at the paper's stance and sets out to change it, resulting in violent repercussions and serious problems for the Phoenix Group and its plan to rule the United States through a puppet president.

About the Author

The third son of a career army officer, James E. Couch was educated in four different states and graduated from the U.S. military dependent?s high school in Bremerhaven, Germany.

After college he served as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Army in Tokyo, Japan. Following receipt of a master?s degree, he became a State Department Foreign Service officer and served in Japan and Laos before two years of intensive study at the State Department?s Japan Language and Area Training School in Tokyo.

He resigned from the Foreign Service and worked as an editor on The Japan Times in Tokyo for three years.

Following that, Couch became a professor in his native State of Florida, teaching political science, international relations and journalism. He founded the mass communications program at Florida International University in Miami, a large member of the Florida State University System, from which he retired in 1993.

A life long writer and teacher of writing skills, Couch brings a great deal of expertise to The Phoenix Paradox, his seventh reality-based novel.