Heed the call of the killdeer bird: kill-dee, kill-dee, kill-deee.
If you choose to chase it, be prepared to die.
A 2017 Amazon Kindle writing compeition winner.
When your friend’s life is a lie, the truth can kill you.
The Killdeer Connection is a clean, gripping “mystery-within-a-thriller” full of suspense, secrets, twists and turns. It’s a 2017 Amazon international writing competition winner professionally edited by Kirkus. Some reader reviews say it’s just as good as a John Grisham novel. Some say it’s better. Others compare it favorably to books by Lee Child, Michael Connelly, or David Baldacci. Readers of Scott Pratt, Thomas Benigno, Robert Dugoni, and John Ellsworth also enjoy The Killdeer Connection. Here’s the story line:
David Thompson is a burned-out lawyer and family man just trying to make ends meet when he stumbles into the crosshairs of the law.
He’s in the wrong place at the wrong time. He becomes a suspect in a friend’s murder because the law has nobody else to pin it on.
Thompson goes on the run to find his friend’s true killer before he’s thrown in jail and railroaded all the way to the lethal injection table.
But the truth is a slippery slope full of court drama, mystery, mayhem, and murder because his friend lived a secret life built on lies.
When Thompson gets too close to the truth, the real killer goes on the hunt. The law and a killer want Thompson now. His wife and son just want him back home.
Suddenly, a tidal wave of terror strikes the country and Thompson’s quest to save his own skin suddenly explodes into a race to save both his family and the nation.
But he may be too late . . .
The Killdeer Connection is the first standalone book in the Lawyer David Thompson Legal Thriller Series. If you like gripping thrillers full of suspense, mystery, and mayhem with twists and turns that will leave you guessing until the very end, you’ll love Tom Swyers’ tale of Big Oil, trains, and wild rides over the backroads of America.
Buy The Killdeer Connection today and buckle up!
Tom Swyers is an attorney, former judge, and the award-winning author of Saving Babe Ruth, the standalone prequel in the David Thomson Lawyer Series. The Killdeer Connection, is a standalone thriller and the first book in the series. Keep up to date with Tom by joining his Readers Group below .
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Advance Praise and Reviews
“I immensely enjoyed The Killdeer Connection. I found it to be a thoruougly engrossing and well executed novel.”
~Paul, Amazon Editor
“Low-cost Kindle books, I have found, are generally all a little rough and amateurish, but this book is as good as it gets. There is suspense and surprises and twists that are breathtaking and unique. I enjoyed this book as much or more than books by the New York Times bestsellers. It was a fast, exciting and rewarding read. I highly recommend this book to readers who enjoy quality.“
– Gardengale, Amazon Reviewer
“His story hooked me from page one and kept steaming along, just like the trains in the book. This author is just as good if not better than John Grisham.”
~C. L. Salaski, author of The Neglected Ones
“Move over John Grisham!”
~Greg Meritt, author of The Adoption.
