Remember Jeff Gannon, the White House "correspondent" for Talonnews.com who turned out to be a right-wing shill? Now the journalist who wasn’t is back in the news with a book that doesn’t exist—and another one that does. And it all revolves around the Democrats’ favorite bogeyman, former White House confidant Karl Rove.

Talonnews.com, Gannon’s former employer, claimed online that he had a new book coming in September, Behind Enemy Lines, that would "finger" Karl Rove as being gay.

Gannon informed PW from Washington, D.C. that there is a book, but it’s called The Great Media War: The Battlefield Report and it’s being published by iUniverse [publisher of Amy Fisher’s If I Knew Then] in cloth, paper and ebook. It is now available through the Web sites of both Amazon.com and BN.com.

Gannon denied the Talonnews.com story about outing Rove. "That is not true," he said. "When the angry mob put Talon out of business in 2005, the domain name was abandoned. Someone has picked it up and is using it for purposes of satire and defamation. I have my attorneys looking at legal action against whoever is operating that web site because they made derogatory comments....They’ve represented themselves as my former employer. I say they have a lot of legal problems." Gannon confirmed that he has no relationship with Talonnews.com right now. "That is correct. Those are rogue operators. I’m sure the operators of that current domain have no relationship to the previous owners of the news service." [Talonnews.com was originally owned by Texas conservative Bobby Eberle, who employed Gannon.]

As for Rove, apparently there’s plenty about "Bush’s Brain" in The Great Media War, although not of the salacious variety. "You can’t talk about how the White House deals with the press without talking about Karl Rove," Gannon told PW. "So there’s, we’ll say, a substantial amount about Karl Rove in it."

Gannon was working for Talonnews.com when left-wing bloggers became suspicious of his softball questions to President Bush, often in the middle of tough press conferences. It all came crashing down in early 2005 when the Democratic left-wing Web site DailyKos.com revealed that Jeff Gannon was really Jim Guckert and he owned the domains to several Web sites including HotMilitaryStud.com, MilitaryEscorts.com and MilitaryEscortsM4M.com. It was later revealed that Gannon, who had no journalistic training, once worked as a $200-an-hour gay escort.

As for the controversy that Gannon found himself engulfed in in 2005? "The book is about the current, what I call, media war, between the right and the left," he said. "My story is nestled in there somewhere. It’s an insider’s view of the White House press corps."

Gannon plans no elaborate publicity plans. "I’ll be putting out press releases and talking to anybody about the book who wants to talk about the book." Eventually, he may make autographed copies available on his Web site, www.jeffgannon.com.

Kevin Howell contributed to this story.