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
“Saving Babe Ruth” Signing and Talk at New Jersey State Little League Championship
I'll be speaking at the evening banquet and signing copies of Saving Babe Ruth afterwards at the New Jersey Little League State Championships in Bayville, New Jersey on July 22nd. I'll also be selling and signing copies of Saving Babe Ruth on July 23 during the day on...
Houston, we have lift off: Saving Babe Ruth is launching
This morning, the white towers of earlier drafts of Saving Babe Ruth resemble rockets launching; yesterday, they stood like tombstones marking the graves of all the trees I've murdered over the years in writing the book. How perspective changes with the passage of a...
Jackie Robinson, Penn State, Rutgers and “Saving Babe Ruth”
Jackie Robinson is referenced a few times in my upcoming novel, Saving Babe Ruth. I want to take a fresh look at the 42 Movie about the Jackie Robinson story in light of last year's events involving Penn State and Rutgers. Then I want to draw parallels to my upcoming...