Headlines From The Pacific

About the Book

 In this first of a series, Mitchell Moore, a fun-loving Army colonel and publisher of Pacific Stars and Stripes in Tokyo, has irritated the brass by running too many stories offensive to the American military in the Far East, which is the audience that the newspaper serves.

 To rein him in, his superiors hire Thomas Ryder III, a small-time, small-minded, Bible-spouting copy editor as managing editor with authority over the news room staff, an extremely cosmopolitan mix of both civilian and military mischief-makers who are loyal to Mitchell and who rile Ryder.

 Ryder fires the staff one by one while Mitchell falls in love with Sally Flower, a copy writer for a Tokyo advertising agency that specializes in marketing Japanese products in the U.S. Low-life antagonists from back home in Virginia pursue Ryder.

 He dies after someone tries to run him through the printing press. Minamoto, the Japanese police detective on the case, figures out who.

About the Author

Timothy Hutchens, who has spent most of his life in publications, is a former executive editor of Pacific Stars and Stripes, the daily newspaper in Tokyo for the American military in the Far East. He has also worked in Washington as a staff member on Capitol Hill for the House Government Information Subcommittee and as a contract information specialist for the Environmental Protection Agency. For more than a decade he was a reporter and editor for The Washington Star. Earlier he had been a reporter for newspapers in Massachusetts, Arizona and California as well as for the New York Herald Tribune. Between jobs in his native New York and his adoptive Washington he was a free-lance writer in Paris.