Aurum Principle

About the Book

THE AURUM PRINCIPLE November 19, 1994: Carl Reise, Founder and C.E.O. of Coyote Enterprises, along with four of his senior management staff departed Sea-Tac International Airport on the company jet. The group’s destination is Palm Springs, California where they are scheduled to attend an emergency meeting of the Coyote Board................ Ted Pickford, a Senior Vice President of Coyote Enterprises, paced nervously in his Palm Springs hotel suite.................. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, Professor Rodney Douglas returned to his office located on the campus of M.I.T. Professor Douglas had been instructed to transmit a facsimile report of a research project he had recently completed for a U.S. corporation............... Janet Reise, Carl’s wife, was in her car driving back to their home in Bellevue. She had spent the evening making love with the man she was having an affair with.............. They all had two things in common.............. All of them would be dead the next morning. And................. THE AURUM PRINCIPLE.

About the Author

J. Michael Stephens For 14 years, J. Michael Stephens held senior management positions with Fortune 500 corporations including Lear Siegler, AFG Industries and PGSI. He founded a Phoenix, Arizona based real estate and development corporation in 1995. Thereafter, he founded a privately held consulting company. From 1996 through 2000, this privately held business finance and consulting organization assisted small businesses and start-up companies in turn-around, growth, equity and debt financing. He served as an Officer and Director of a technology development corporation from 1997 to 2000, and he co-founded a second successful a research and development entity in 2001. In April 2003, Stephens resigned his corporate administrative responsibilities to pursue a career as an author.