About the author

Tom Shepherd flew medical evacuation helicopters in Vietnam, where he received two Distinguished Flying Crosses, the Air Medal, and the Purple Heart. He has worked as a Japanese linguist, public school teacher, and graduate school professor. Shepherd is originally from Reading, Pennsylvania, but lived in Alaska, Germany, Indochina, and the Republic of Korea.

Dr. Tom (not medical) spent the balance of of his professional career working with churches in the Deep South, California, and the Midwest, all leading to his final post as Professor of Religious Studies at Unity Institute near Kansas City, Missouri.

Author of a wide array of articles and nonfiction books, plus more than twenty plays and two novels for the middle grades, Shepherd “retired” in 2016 to write sci-fi novels full time.

"Arrested on an alien world--who you gonna call?"

STAR LAWYERS, Dr. Tom's best-selling series, continues to thrill readers, who describe it as “Star Trek meets Law & Order.” Tom Shepherd lives with wife Carol-Jean in Tucson, Arizona.

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