A Soldier's Son

by Jack Estes

Overview

It's 1968, Mike Kelly's chopper is shot down over Vietnam. They are surrounded by enemy. The crew is dead. Most of his team is dead. Mike must leave a wounded marine behind. Now, it is 2004 and the Iraq war has begun. Mike has PTSD and his rebellious son, Mick, joins the marines and is sent to Iraq. Mike travels to Iraq, hoping to save his son.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780997399004
Publisher:	jack estes
Publication date:	07/05/2016
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Jack Estes served in Vietnam in 1968/69 during the bloodiest time of the war. He received critical acclaim for his first book, the Vietnam memoir," A Field of Innocence". Tim O'Brien, author of "The Things They Carried" said, "With it's raw realism and heartbreaking honesty...One of the finest Vietnam memoirs."
Karl Marlantes, author of the New York Times best selling, Vietnam novel, Matterhorn, said this about Jack Estes' new novel, "A Soldier's Son." "All veterans and their loved ones should read this story of a father's love, loss, and personal courage, both at home and at war."

Over the years Mr. Estes has also published articles and essays in Newsweek, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, The Oregonian and Wall Street Journal, on Memorial Day, 2016.

Mr. Estes and his wife Colleen O'Callaghan are the founders of Fallen Warriors Foundation and have traveled to Vietnam on missions of mercy, delivering medical goods, books and toys to the village he once lived in. Jack also took a group of disabled Vietnam veterans back to Vietnam to their original point of pain for healing and he took doctors and nurses, on another occasion to work with the poorest of the poor.

Fallen Warriors has held meditation retreats for almost 20 years, for veterans and their loved ones.
They have held events at high schools and colleges and community gatherings. The work of Jack and Colleen is to honor the memories of American soldiers and help heal the pain of war.

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Editorial Reviews

"All veterans and their loved one should read this story of a fathers love, loss and personal courage, both at home and at war."
KARL MARLANTES author of the epic Vietnam novel "Matterhorn.

"Estes skillfully presents the effect of war on families both in the moment and decades later. His characters are rich and complex. Battle scenes are vividly drawn, keeping the reader caught up in the action. A complex novel of the past and future, fathers and sons, and war and redemption, and the devastating impact of large-scale violence on both the perpetrators and the victims." KIRKUS REVIEW

"Jack Estes is a master at capturing the human costs of war, from the battlefield to the front rooms of America. As riveting, as it is lyrical, A Soldier's Son will not be forgotten."
KAREN KARBO, author of award winning "The Stuff of Life"

"In his beautifully written novel, A Soldier's Son, Jack Estes, a Vietnam veteran, brings an authenticity and emotional intensity to the page. The result is a page turner."
LARRY COLTON, nominee for a Pulitzer Prize for "Counting Coup"

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