Stern, Tom

Tom Stern, MD, is a national record-holding swimmer, an avid traveler/adventurer and a Stanford graduate. Following college, he put himself through medical school by picking fruit with migrant farm workers and riding the American railroads as a brakeman, watchman, and freight train conductor. During one of his 60+ trips abroad, Stern discovered gold on a remote island in the South China Sea. After his discovery, he operated a gold mine until a rash of killings forced closure. This, along with his experiences in five expeditions searching for the Yamashita Gold, inspired his first novel, Gold F...