Mercy's Heroes:

​The Fight for Human Dignity in the Bangkok Slums.

In Mercy's Heroes, a Vietnam veteran battling with PTSD turns from the business world to life as a volunteer, helping to rescue and protect street kids in Bangkok's biggest slum.

Here Tom Crowley details the children's efforts to survive abuse and the struggle for dignity waged by the poorest of families. Interwoven throughout, the author's combat experiences and pain highlight the question of how to find personal reconciliation amid the struggles of abused children in the slums. In his efforts to help others, he gains a spiritual understanding worth much more than his financial loss. At the same time, he learns, "You must consign the failures to the burden the angels can carry and let go of the guilt."

This story will resonate with all those who want to gain a deeper insight into social work at the street level. The successes are to be celebrated-the losses mourned. Mercy's Heroes portrays the healing that is to be found in helping others.

Mercy's Heroes has been nominated for the Siam Book Awards, October 2022

​KIrkus Reviews  terms Mercy's Heroes, "An earnest, sometimes beautiful memoir of service in the slums of Bangkok. 

The Military Writers Society of America, MWSA, has given Mercy's Heroes 5-stars on Reader's Choice. 
Bangkok Gamble:
​A Matt Chance Thriller
Kidnapping, international trafficking on the dark web, bit coin blackmail by gangster police states, loan sharks, and a monk obsessed with profit and power are all in the mix.

When Matt Chance is asked by a Bangkok gambling kingpin to investigate the kidnapping of his daughter he’s not interested. That is until he learns that his mentor, former Special Forces soldier John Scales, already on the case, has disappeared. On the trail, Matt confronts Jade Lee, an ex-US Army chopper pilot who joins the chase.

Their attempt to rescue the girl and capture the monk in charge of the criminal cult appears to be a failure until the CIA joins the picture in the form of Matt’s older brother Rick. Offered the chance to take part in a covert operation in Macau, where the monk has fled, Matt and Jade agree to go. The risk is great, the territory unknown, but it seems the only way to rescue the girls and get the mad monk.

Bangkok Gamble has received a 5-star review from Reader's Favorite. 

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Viper's Tail:
​A Matt Chance Thriller

The Corona virus prediction?
 
Matt Chance, an ex US Army Ranger living in Bangkok, finds himself drafted into the middle of a deadly plot involving right wing Japanese fanatics intent on punishing China for grievances going back to the end of WW II and the loss of Japan’s prominent position as a global power.
 
A leading American research scientist, investigating a mysterious viral  outbreak in China, is found dead in unusual circumstances in the Northern jungles of Thailand. Matt is recruited by the U.S. Center for Disease Control, fronting for the CIA, to look into the death. The trail points to the involvement of a Japanese yakuza gang who immediately threaten Matt. Though Matt’s initial suspicion is that the gang is involved in smuggling drugs, it becomes apparent that the substance they are dealing with is much more deadly. He continues to investigate and what he unravels is not only a threat to China but to the world.
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 REVIEWS
 "A “page turning thriller” and “an adventure in exotic Thailand.”  The Military Writer's Society of America.
 
A  “politically jolting novel of Thai intrigue” and “a startling fabric of fiction.”  The Nation, Bangkok. 

Shrapnel Wounds:
An Infantry Lieutenant's Vietnam War Memoir

Shrapnel Wounds is the combat memoir of Lieutenant Tom Crowley, an enthusiastic and highly trained U.S. Army enlistee and Officer Candidate School grad who enters combat in Vietnam in late 1966. Highly regarded by his infantry platoon and strongly encouraged by his superiors to become a professional soldier, Crowley almost inadvertently examines the system by which career officers are shepherded through to higher and higher rank—and increasingly rejects that system over the course of his one-year combat tour.

Reviews

 “Of the many accounts of day-to-day life in the field in Vietnam, few have matched, and none have surpassed, Tom Crowley’s account of his experience as an infantry platoon leader during the Vietnam War. " 

"A brilliant effort.”
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Dwight Jon Zimmerman President, Military Writers Society of America,  New York Times bestselling author

"A how-to book on leading men in combat."

​VVA Books.Worldpress.com

Murder in the Slaughterhouse:
A Matt Chance Thriller

Murder in the Slaughterhouse was a 2016  Bronze Medal award winner from the Military Writer's Society of America. 


Murder, sexual exploitation, designer drugs, international terrorism and an off the rails CIA station chief are all in the mix.
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A teenaged street boy is found viciously murdered in the most unlikely of places, his nude body laid on the bare concrete floor of the slaughterhouse where they kill the pigs. The boy was a student at the muay thai school run by Coach Somchai, who is also Matt's martial arts mentor. Afraid the cops may find the killing easy to dismiss as just another meth crazed killing, Coach Somchai calls on Matt to look into the boys death.

Matt finds the boy was drawn into a sex service ring whose clients include international terrorists and those who control them. Most troubling of all, the trail leads Matt to a covert CIA operation and one of the most notorious of CIA operatives, a man Matt has clashed with before in Iraq. The operative's power in Thailand means Matt's safety is in question. He must run for his life searching outside of Thailand for allies to help counterbalance the threat and solve the murder.  

Stilwell's Long Retreat: Burma 1942

​Of all the major commands given to American generals during World War II, that of Joseph “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations had to involve the most frustrating of reporting and coordination lines. 

The Allies—the British military under General Alexander, the Nationalist Chinese forces under Generalissimo Chiang, Kai-shek and the Americans under Lieutenant General Stilwell—were anything but allied in their goals and their approaches to the war with Japan.

“Stilwell’s Long Retreat” is the story of how the American general jumped into his many missions with stubborn conviction and, in the face of initial defeat, set an example of leadership that would be a preview of his grit and courage in the eventual victory in Burma.

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Bangkok Pool Blues

Amazon Review: 
A  good job telling stories of people that you will meet on the  Bangkok pool scene. The author also shows good observation and knowledge about Thai cultural details and aspects. 

The heartbeat of “Bangkok Pool Blues” is the gritty insiders’ story of the people of this night culture  and  the interplay of  the  Thai gambling and entertainment scene with  a Western style  professional  pool scene new to Thailand. Bangkok’s   growth  as an international nexus in all areas is on display in this oft times shadowy   night world,  with Thai bar owners and  night workers mixing with professional and amateur pool players and gamblers from Europe, the Americas, and Asia. The stories of those floating though the scene,  Thai and foreign, are documented  in detail with gripping black and white photography by Yoon Ki Kim a Korean photographer who  lives and works in Bangkok.  A look inside “Bangkok Pool Blues” presents the reader a close up view of  a scene new to Thailand,  and  reflects a Thai counter culture that most never see.

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