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
How President Franklin Roosevelt Saved Baseball
In honor of Veterans Day, I thought it might be interesting to revisit a moment in history when baseball was almost lost due to war.It was a few weeks after Pearl Harbor when baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis wrote President Franklin Roosevelt and...
How Baseball Might Have Saved Christopher Lane
Christopher Lane, a promising college baseball player, was murdered by a gunshot to the back the other day and the tragedy has prompted me to do some thinking. One of the teens arrested was reported to have said that he and his accomplices were “bored” and “decided to...
Saving Babe Ruth Baseball: Supporting the Mid-Atlantic Tournament
My upcoming novel, Saving Babe Ruth, revolves around the idea that community baseball is worth saving. You can read more about it here. Sure, I like to watch baseball all the way from the youth level to the major league level. I like to coach it too. But my passion...