TOM SWYERS
AUTHOR
Tom Swyers is an attorney, hearing officer, former judge, and an award-winning author of three standalone novels in the Lawyer David Thompson Legal Thrillers Series. He lives with his family in Upstate New York.
Caged to Kill is the second book in the Lawyer David Thompson Legal Thriller Series and is set to be released on April 2, 2019. Convicted cop-killer Phillip Dawkins is running from the truth and thirty years of solitary confinement when he shows up at David Thompson’s door. Thompson must free Dawkins from his past before a killing beast is unleashed. But he may be too late . . .
The Killdeer Connection is the standalone first book in the Lawyer David Thompson Legal Thriller Series. David Thompson is on the run for a murder he didn’t commit. The book was a 2017 winner in Amazon’s international writing competition for Kindle Books . . .
Saving Babe Ruth is the standalone prequel to the Lawyer David Thompson Legal Thriller Series. David Thompson goes to war against a greedy travel baseball promoter and risks it all when he tries to save kids’ baseball for the sandlot kids in town. Based upon a true story and with a foreword written by Babe Ruth’s grandson, the novel was the recipient of two Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2015 . . .
Blog
William Blake Transferred To Attica Solitary: Update on Novel “Caged to Kill.”
I regret taking so long to write a blog post about William Blake and my novel, Caged to Kill. The past few months have been painful and it’s painful for me to write this update. But before getting into the events of the past few months, I want to note that the...
Visit With Billy Blake At Prison
I drove three hours round trip on Wedneday, April 17th to visit Billy Blake for over five hours at Great Meadows Maximim Secuirty Prison in Comstock, New York. There is no way to contact him by phone. Solitary inmates are allowed one outgoing phone call per month. I...
An April Fool’s Day Letter Changed My Life:18th Century Poet William Blake Is Alive And Trapped In A Box.
There's an unbelievable story behind my upcoming novel, Caged to Kill that'll be released this Tuesday April, 2nd . It'll be exactly two years to the day on April Fool's Day that this story began. I still shake my head to this day in disbelief. Was it pure coincidence...