"Whenever I begin work on a new book, I am reborn into a new world."
James Alexander Thom, best selling author of many historical novels, says this about his modern novel Staying Out of Hell. "Like my character, Scotty Montgomery, I grew up in the idyllic prewar Midwest, was a Marine, and later a journalist appalled by the cheapness of life and the world's casual disregard for human suffering. Like my protagonist, I am unable to reconcile my country's two roles: the citadel of humane idealism, and the leading world merchant of death-dealing weapons. I hope by this novel to awaken our benumbed souls to the awful absurdities with which we live."






Follow the River
Long Knife
Red Heart
Panther in the Sky
The Spirit of the Place
From Sea to Shining Sea
Spectator Sport
Sign Talker
Staying Out of Hell
About my Life
Hit Counter
The Children of the First Man
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Fire In the Water
Writing Historical Fiction
Warrior Woman
St. Patrick's Battalion
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                                  THOM NOVELS GOING ELECTRONIC                                  

             Six of James Alexander Thom's historical novels have been selected to be included in Random House's Electronic Book (ebook) publishing program.
             The titles chosen for such formats as Amazon Kindle, iPod, and
         the Sony Reader are:
           LONG KNIFE
           FOLLOW THE RIVER
           THE RED HEART
           SIGN-TALKER
           FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA
           PANTHER IN THE SKY 

             The author finds the news good, but ironic, musing, "I use every bit of my skill  and imagination to take my readers hundreds of years into the past -- and now they'll visit those old days through the screen of an electronic gizmo."