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 . . .
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Novel “Saving Babe Ruth” to be Honored at Ben Franklin Book Awards Ceremony
I’m pleased to announce that Saving Babe Ruth has been named as a finalist in two categories of the annual Benjamin Franklin Awards competition for excellence in publishing. The two categories are: “Popular Fiction” and the “Ben Fisher Award for Best First Book:...
Jackie Robinson West: A Little League Baseball Team Teaches Life Lessons to All
We all wanted to believe in the Little League team called Jackie Robinson West. We wanted to believe they were one of those uplifting underdog stories that have come to define us as Americans. That’s the image we were sold all summer long during the televised Little...
An Afternoon with John Thorn, Official Historian for Major League Baseball
Thanks to the Albany (New York) Institute of History and Art, this city is the place to be if you have an interest in baseball. The Institute's "Triple Play" exhibit on baseball runs through July. It's not only the exhibit (containing items from professional and...