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Tom West Writer and Author of “The Most Interesting Man You Have Never Met” and “On The Right Side of The Road”

Join the author, Tom West, as he recounts his fascinating life. A risk taker, entrepreneur, steadfast banker, blackjack dealer and a solid government bureaucrat.

The careers zig and zag. As a young man, he works with his father as a true American cowboy in Texas. In fact, on a trip to Los Angeles to visit family, he is repeatedly mistaken for a famous actor and asked for his autograph. As a Las Vegas blackjack dealer, we find him meeting one celebrity after another. Most are seeking to maintain anonymity and he uses his charisma and humor to ensure they have a quiet, uninterrupted time at his table.

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BOOK REVIEWS

Just a few on Both Books (current and retired editions)

Your life story reads like America’s handshake.  I started reading The Most Interesting Man You Have Never Met and immediately thought – yep, the title undersells it.  Cowboy, banker, blackjack dealer, government man?  That’s not a memoir, that’s a full-season Netflix pitch.  The way you write it, straightforward, funny, and just a touch nostalgic, feels like sitting across from a guy who’s seen it all and still believes a handshake means something. Bookglow Community (reviewed November, 2025)

High energy from beginning to end.  Such a fun book to read!  Definitely an interesting read written by an amazing man. Glad to call him a friend.  Can’t wait to read his second book: On The Right Side of the Road.  DynamiteKat (reviewed September, 2025)

Author Tom West hits the mark with this incredible story of a man’s life that will keep you eagerly turning one page after another – Brighton Publishing

Liked the books very much and compared them to a book on Forest Gump which was a hit. – Glenn Banks, former Science Teacher at Lake View Centennial High School for 30 years

Very interesting man.  Found myself actually laughing out loud in several places in his book.  – Anonymous Amazon Customer

On The Right Side of The Road

Tom West, the author of “The Most Interesting Man You Have Never Met” now takes you along on his adventures, and that of his sometime sidekick, Le Roy, and yes often times challenges, of driving an over-the-road big truck. This entertaining story covers his travels and as they cover 46 of the 48 lower states from the East coast to the West coast and places in between, and navigate through all of the big cities, and some of the wildest backroads in the country.

Starting out his truck driver career during his high school years, he recalls hauling cattle, groceries, frozen foods, veggies of all kinds, and everything in between. But trucking was not his only calling in life. From being a farmer, rancher and cowboy to working in the oilfield, to a career as a vice president in banks and finally a card dealer in Las Vegas. And yet, he would turn to his driving skills that he learned early in life to restore his self-confidence and maintain his sanity.

And so, this story, some of which was written thirty years ago from a diary kept while driving for two different trucking companies, is written as it happened. But being southern, some of the facts could have gotten bigger in the rendition. Sometimes he may lean to the left, sometimes to the right, but he believes, at least in this country, it is better to drive “On The Right Side Of The Road.”

MORE BOOK REVIEWS

If you haven’t gotten Tom’s book yet, you should.  I highly recommend reading it.  It is a great book. – Don Archer

What an interesting man. Very entertaining book.  Hope to see more from this guy. – Anonymous Amazon Customer

I’ve almost finished the first book.  I can’t believe Tom had so many broken bones in the things he did as a boy.  It’s a great book!!  Great stories!!  – Zoe Mayes

Enjoyed the book.  Interesting stories.  Amazing that Tom remembered all that detail from so long ago. – Jeanie Reichert

Very good book.  I would recommend to anyone. – Jim Stumpf

Read them both.  Good reading! – Susan Howard

It’s a very good book. – Dr. Sandy Johnson, Fort Smith, AR

Enjoyed reading the book even though you forgot to mention me after all those years as your neighbor in Vegas..great stories. – John Rupe

Read your book on Amazon e-book.  Thanks for mentioning me.  I gave it 5 stars just for that.  I don’t know how you remember that much detail?  I can’t remember what I had for breakfast today.  It will be fun talking about at the reunion. – Roddy Woodson

On The Right Side of the Road is a very entertaining book and laugh out loud funny.  Highly recommend reading. – Jim Stumpf

Just finished the second book, On The Right Side of the Road.  Both books were very interesting and quite good.  Would recommend to family and friends.  – Roddy Woodson

On The Right Side of the Road is an awesome book about trucking mostly before the inmates took over the asylum. Lots of info and many many laughs. To say this man led an interesting and full speed ahead lifestyle is a gross understatement. A very enjoyable book.  – Edmund W. Maggy