Twisted Vengeance

About the Book

After leaving hospital after an operation, Todd Blaine and his wife Maria are looking forward to a long rest and a holiday.

A crazed assassin however has other ideas for the Blaines as he arrives in New Zealand seeking revenge which leads to confronting an exciting and dangerous encounter with local drug villains, gun runners and a search for a luxury catamaran with an explosive encounter in the South Pacific ocean.

About the Author

Tom Lewis was born in Invercargill, the first of eight children. Tom has two brothers, and a sister who died in infancy. Tom's father died in an accident in 1940 and the family moved to the eastern Southland town of Mataura. Tom's mother remarried towards the end of WWII and four more children followed; all girls. Whilst living in Mataura, Tom joined the New Zealand Post Office as a postman and telegraph delivery boy in 1953, and resigned two years later but in 1956 he was drawn back to the Post Office and restarted his career. This eventually led to him being transferred to several offices throughout the country. His transfers eventually saw him posted, in the early sixties, to the Accounts Branch of the Director General's Office in Wellington, and he has remained in the Wellington district ever since. A career, mainly in Finance and Human Resources followed and he worked ten years for Telecom Corporation before retiring in 1997. It was while working in the Accounts Branch he met the woman who was to become his wife. Tom and Marie married in 1967, and have two adult children, Greg and Tracey. Just prior to retirement, Tom purchased a computer and started what had been a life's ambition, to write a novel. The story, an international crime thriller, Eye of the Kea, was published electronically by Zeus Publications Australia in 2000 and was released in paperback by Horizon Press in May 2002 and made number seven in the NZ Best Sellers Top 10. His second novel Black Friday was released by Zeus Publications in Australia in October 2004. Tom is at present busy on his third novel, Twisted Vengeance. He has had a lifelong interest in books and writing and has always enjoyed reading. Ever since he can remember, he has read books on just about every subject, his favourites being crime fiction, humour, war stories and westerns. Tom was the Books Editor for the New Zealand Writers Website for two years then he resigned to work on his novels. He has written many book reviews that have been published in the Website newsletter and these have been well received by publishers in New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain. If you would like to have Tom as a speaker for an event please send an email to bookings@tomlewis.co.nz