Books by Tom Reed

Communities are built on the shoulders of humble giants who quietly answered the nations call to fight wars, then came home and built businesses and families and communities prospered because of their efforts. Two old men sit on a bench around court square and remember their lives and observe the changes in the community they helped build. Lifes tales, tragedies and lessons come from discussions on the Bench. Community and personal values, dating back to Biblical times are discussed at the Bench.

Truthful Moments is a timely, compelling murder mystery that involves a witness who is an American veteran soldier suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The murder triggers flashbacks, and he struggles to sort out his past from the present as he helps solve this crime. In the process he reconnects with his estranged wife. One of the goals of the book is to highlight the difficulties of PTSD.The setting is a small Southern town where a popular physician kills a nurse during an afternoon tryst. The main character struggles within himself to match the puzzle pieces to help solve the case and win the love of his life back.

For a Time We Were Titans is the memoir of an LRP/Ranger in Vietnam. It follows ten GIs from their arrival at the LRP compound in Ban Me Thuot in October 1968 to the authors return home in September 1969. It shows that those that last can grow from raw recruits, to Titans, leaders that serve as mentors and role models for those that came after them. This is the war as a LRP saw it. LRPs were the Long Range Patrol units that served as the eyes and ears of the infantry, who were dropped into enemy territory and given the responsibility of finding the hiding places of an elusive foe. It is not the story of massive battles and strategic operations, but rather depicts actual contacts between four and five man LRP Teams and unknown numbers of North Vietnamese or Vietcong.