Tom Crowley was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received a BA at Marquette University, and then did his graduate studies in International Economics at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC. He served as an infantry officer and rifle platoon leader with the 25th Inf. Division in the Vietnam War where he was wounded, and decorated for his service. After graduate school he joined the US Foreign Service and worked in Asia as a foreign Service officer and then in the intelligence field. He moved to the business world working with the General Electric company, while living in various Asian countries. He ended his business career in Bangkok and then went to work as a volunteer for fourteen years at the Mercy Centre, an NGO in the Klong Toey slum area of Bangkok that works with the poorest of the poor. Mercy helps street children, orphans and also children and adults who are HIV positive. Tom divides his time between homes in Kensington, Maryland and Bangkok. He is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the Military Writers Society of America and the International Thriller Writers.    His  Matt Chance fiction works include  Viper’s Tail, Murder in the Slaughterhouse and, released in November 2020,  Bangkok Gamble. All are  action adventure tales based in Thailand with a former U.S. Army Ranger as the  hero. His nonfiction works include his  Vietnam memoir Shrapnel Wounds and Bangkok Pool Blues which are on Amazon books. His military history article on  Merrill's Marauders was published in WW II Quarterly in Oct. 2017.

Tom's latest, and most heartfelt book, introduced in December 2021, is Mercy's Heroes recounting the fourteen years he spent with the Mercy Centre in Bangkok. 

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