"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."

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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."