Son of Thunder

In a novel about the awful price of heroism, rookie pilot John Ellsworth is eager to liberate Vietnam from its Communist oppressors, while Army nurse Kate Moffit hopes only to rescue John from himself

JD Wetterling has over 100 essays, short stories, columns and guest columns published in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, the St. Petersburg Times, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, World magazine and numerous other periodicals. In 1968-9 he flew 268 combat missions in an F-100 in Vietnam and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He was Top Gun in every fighter squadron in which he served in the U.S.A.F. He lives and writes in Oldsmar, Florida.