Tom West

Tom West is a pen name used once by British science writer and thriller novelist Michael White (1959-2018) for The Titanic Enigma (2013), a historical mystery built around the sinking of the Titanic. It sits alongside White's other pen-name work as Sam Fisher (the E-Force disaster-thriller trilogy) and his run of historical-conspiracy thrillers published under his own name, including The Medici Secret and The Borgia Ring, which share the same appetite for real-world mysteries -- lost relics, unsolved deaths, hidden histories -- researched with the rigor of White's earlier career writing popular science and biography. White died in 2018. Because his catalogue spans multiple pen names and co-written work (including Private Down Under, written with James Patterson), this site's own series notes flag that exact credits for some later or lesser-documented titles could not be independently verified and are excluded rather than guessed -- a caution that applies equally to the single Tom West title.