Born the only child to a Boston Police officer, and a Emergency Room nurse, Tom’s childhood in the South Boston neighborhood of South Dorchester was one of learning quickly that anyone at any time could be a target of violence and crime. Learning to protect himself as he went, things seemed normal, or as normal as could be expected for the local pig’s offspring.

This was until shortly after Tom’s ninth birthday, and his mother became ill. Diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer too late to stave it off with certainty, she would bravely fight on for another three, painful years before at last succumbing to the cancer when Tom was twelve.  The next five years were a slog of pain and hell as his father, unable to properly process his grief, turned to the bottle.
While never impaired enough to do his job, his anger, sadness and stress were inevitably unloaded on Tom, such that by the summer of his Senior year in High School, Tom could stand this life no more. Leaving home, Tom used some slick talk, and a hard-earned fake I.D. Tom convinced a shift foreman at the Port of Boston to hire him on as an apprentice Longshoreman.
Working the graveyard shift every night before going directly to school after his shift, returning to the squalid rented room in the flop house he now called home. Work, school, homework, some sleep, some food, this was his life that final year of High School, a daze of drudgery, only broken by the one indulgence he gave himself, the one page a night of a story he would write, inspired by his life working at the docks.

A story of desperation, need, crime and bad timing, all crafted in that rented room by the heat of a hot plate, that became his first novel, “Brothers In Blood” the story of seven young Southie natives who fell afoul of the Boston Irish Mod. A story that after being submitted to a major publishing house under the pseudonym of Nick Bronson, became a New York Times Bestseller.

Thus has Tom, now no longer living in the squalor of a rented flop house room, but not a man to simply sit back and rest on any supposed laurels, started a writing carrier, expanding his resume with the stories “Sins Of The City”, “The Philadelphia Connection”, and “The Burning of Dixieland” each reaching best sellers status.

Thus has Tom come to Hathian, to write a story about a city that had for a terrible moment, gripped the attention of the nation following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, but in the decades that followed, had all but been forgotten. To do this, as he has with all his books, Tom will live as best as he can like the locals, immerse himself in their culture, their trials and struggles, their actions, their plights, their fears and hopes. Their experiences are woven together to tell the story of this crumbling, rotting city that the nation has chosen to abandon.