Trouble in Texas

Thom Nicholson was born in Springfield, Missouri. He graduated from Missouri School of Mines with a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering. After college he joined the US Army and graduated from the Officer Candidate School at Ft. Benning, Georgia, where he is now in its Hall of Fame. His initial overseas assignment with Special Forces was with the 5th Group in South Vietnam. His camp was actively engaged in interdiction operations against the Viet Cong. He is married to Sandra, a public school speech pathologist. They live in Highland Ranch, Colorado, where they are retired. He writes Western novels while working on his golf game in the summer and skiing in the winter. They have five grown children, scattered from Washington, D.C., to Portland, Oregon.