Tom Gauthier

Tom Gauthier

About

Novelist and Playwright, Acting Coach/Director, World Traveler, Lecturer and Communications Consultant. Doctorate in Psychology, Masters in Business Administration - Add it all up over a forty year career and it produces some neat plots to develop for your entertainment!
Novels:

Code Name: ORION'S EYE

A VOYAGE BEYOND REASON
(2009 Winner of Writers Digest Self-Published Book Award)

 MEAD'S TREK

Coming April 2013:  DIE LISTE: Revenge On The Black Sun


Plays: Murder at Alkali Lake
         
Die on our Mountain
          Whisky, She Wrote
           Here Come d'Judge

Fatal Rivalry: Part Three of The Last Great Saxon Earls

Fatal Rivalry: Part Three of The Last Great Saxon Earls

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<p>In 1066, the rivalry between two brothers brought England to its knees. When Duke William of Normandy landed at Pevensey on September 28, 1066, no one was there to resist him. King Harold Godwineson was in the north, fighting his brother Tostig and a fierce Viking invasion. How could this have happened? Why would Tostig turn traitor to wreak revenge on his brother?<br />The Sons of Godwine were not always enemies. It took a massive Northumbrian uprising to tear them apart, making Tostig an exile and Harold his sworn enemy. And when 1066 came to an end, all the Godwinesons were dead except one: Wulfnoth, hostage in Normandy. For two generations, Godwine and his sons were a mighty force, but their power faded away as the Anglo-Saxon era came to a close.</p>

Story Behind The Book

Amos Mead's character developed in the novel &quot;Code Name: ORION'S EYE&quot;, and now blossoms in Gauthier's second historical fiction story from World War Two and the American OSS operations. Mead gets thrust into the little known theater of war - CBI or China Burma India - where front lines of combat are fluid and friends become foes/ foes become friends, as real people lived and died in obscurity. The story touchs the real-life events of 1943-44 that, unknown to most Americans, became the smoldering fuse that exploded into the Vietnam War; a war that as you will learn could have been avoided! The political intrigue is based on fact, surprising fact.

Reviews

<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="3"><strong><em>&quot;Gauthier weaves a compelling story of intrigue, action and romance.&quot;</em></strong> <span> </span><span>  </span></font></span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Lis Wiehl, author of <em>Face of Betrayal</em> and FOX NEWS analyst</span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><font size="3"><strong><em>“. . . edge of your seat action . . . impressively accurate descriptions of the war . . .”<span>  </span></em></strong><span>   </span></font></span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Judge F. Donald Sokol, WWII B-17 Pilot, decorated veteran of twenty-four missions over Germany and the last raid on Berlin.</span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><strong><em><font size="3">“Amos Mead's a gem, and he's back in this sequel to Orion's Eye, better than ever. Thanks to Gauthier's strong characterization, his leading man has grown and deepened in Mead's Trek, and his readers will be wanting more.”<br /></font></em></strong></span><span style="font-size:11pt;">Kristopher Franklin, internationally published suspense novelist and editor. Author of <em>Silvercat, The High San Juan</em>, and <em>Relentless<br /><br /></em></span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span style="color:#333333;"> <em>Mead's Trek </em>revives convincingly and well nigh accurately the period covering the end of World War II in </span><span style="color:#333333;">Southeast Asia</span><span style="color:#333333;">, particularly in what was known at that time as French Indochina. In this historical novel, agents of the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S) and other American officials interacted with the Vichy French government of Indochina, the Japanese army of occupation, the Chinese officers of Chiang Kai Shek and the Viet Minh, a Vietnamese anti-fascist, anti-colonial and pro-independence movement fostered by the Communist Party of Indochina.    TRUONG BUU LAM - noted Vietnam Historian</span></span></font></p><p></p> <p></p>