World Class Fighter Pilots
(the toughest jury)
say this about SON OF THUNDER 

"JD Wetterling captures the (Vietnam) experience better than anyone I've read or heard."
Gen. Ron Fogleman, former Chief of Staff, USAF

"…captures the essence of a fighter pilot in combat… a charming love story…a subtle analysis of a war that went bad…told just about as well as it can be told."
Lt. Gen. James Edmundson (USAF, Ret.)

"SON OF THUNDER--Sierra Hotel." 
 Maj. Gen. Ken Miles, (USAF, Ret.)

"I recently purchased SON OF THUNDER from Amazon.com and was most thoroughly pleased with the book.  I must in all honesty praise your writing skills and how vividly you have described events.  Your book is thoroughly readable and I found myself unable to put it down until I had perused it.  Congratulations!
Maj. Gen. Muhammad Rahimullah (Afghan Air Force, Ret.)

"Reading his emotional and exhilarating account was like living it again."
Brig. Gen. Tom Wittman, NM ANG

"I felt like I should have been wearing a G-suit…. Thanks for writing SON OF THUNDER."
Brig. Gen. Lon Walter (USAF, Ret.)

"SON OF THUNDER is one of the finest Vietnam-era fighter pilot stories I have ever read."
Lt. Col. Steve Miller (USAF, Ret.)

"SON OF THUNDER is great. Get the book–read it."
Dick Rutan (aviation pioneer & former fighter pilot)

"Read SON OF THUNDER and understand what it was really like."
Col. Mark Berent (USAF, Ret.), Best-selling author

"You owe me a full night's sleep."
Col. "Hawk" Moll, (USAF, Ret.)

"SON OF THUNDER is the catharsis for the Vietnam fighter pilot, this era's sequel to Red Badge of Courage, War and Remembrance and Winds of War."
Col. Stew Gable (USAF, Ret.)

"It's the first book that ever made me sweat…and I've been there, done that."
Joe Vincent (former USAF fighter pilot)

"The guy with the Right stuff tells the Right kind of story. If only he'd been in the right service."
Carl Stattin (former Navy fighter pilot)

"I couldn't put the book down. Wonderful…."
Don Castleman (former fighter pilot)

"I'm personally aware of JD's abilities as a fighter pilot, but his skill as a writer is equally impressive."
Col. "Herk" Herculson (USAF, Ret.)

"…spellbinding!"
Col. Win Reither (USAF, Ret.)

"It is without doubt one of the best aviation based novels I have read (and I have read a few!)....  It ranks as one of the aviation greats in my opinion.  You have captured the exhilaration and horror of flying combat as well as encompassing the sheer beauty of flight that all pilots feel."
Lt. Cdr. Kevin Potts, (Royal Navy (UK) pilot, Desert Storm Veteran)

 More reviews at:

Amazon.com, Son of Thunder

Barnes & Noble.com, Son of Thunder

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