FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 1, 2020
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M. Thomas Collins
Tom.collins@i65n.com
Franklin Author Tom Collins’s Sixth Mystery Moves to Outer Space
Franklin, TN – While sheltering in place for the COVID-19 pandemic, local author Tom Collins put the finishing touches on his seventh book and sixth mystery in his Mark Rollins Adventures series. Collins writes from his home in Franklin, Tennessee, where his characters come to life and frequent familiar places in the bucolic middle Tennessee landscape. What makes Collins’s latest mystery, Beyond Visual Range, different is that his Nashville heroines take the story into outer space. The author explained:
“For more than two years, I've known that I wanted to write about the problems faced by our military drone pilots. That mission was reinforced when I read the New York Times story by Eyal Press titled The Wounds of the Drone Warrior. However, I was missing a compelling plot until real life events supplied the material I needed for my story--the impeachment, the mysterious X-37B space plane, and the migration of retiring military flag officers to the Music City area. Proving again that real life is the material of good fiction.”
More about the story, Beyond Visual Range – Two women drone pilots battle in outer space to defend their country. One is a former fighter pilot who, after a crash, now flies from a wheelchair. This dynamic female drone crew from Nashville, Tennessee, now based in Florida, is drafted to defend the United States from a rogue military element threatening to use force to overthrow the government. Their weapons are twenty-foot tungsten rods. A single rod dropped from orbit would strike Earth at ten times the speed of sound with the impact of a nuclear weapon. As weapons are readied, our heroines find they are Beyond Visual Range.
M. Thomas (Tom) Collins is one of the pioneer entrepreneurs of the information technology industry. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the ALM publication Law Technology News for his contribution to the use of technology in the legal services community. Citytech, a London-based publication, called him an "outstanding individual and visionary" when he was named as one of the Top 100 Global Tech Leaders. Although retired from the commercial world, he continues to write and speak on leadership and management as well as pen his series of Mark Rollins Adventure mysteries.
For more information about Tom Collins’s book, to inquire about a review copy, or to schedule an interview, please contact him at tom.collins@i65n.com.
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