"...packed an emotional punch...this book (will have) a great deal to add to the post-Iraq era of physical and mental trauma. I really cared about these characters by the time I had finished the book...." --Laurabelle Hibbets McCaffery, Librarian (IN)

"...authentic stuff, although the narrator’s wound is not common, thank God. This story did bring me close to tears in several places, but it’s also very funny....—1st Lt Vincent Popper, United States Marine Corps (Ret.)

"...I didn’t want this story to end. I think I was more than a little in love with this really good man by the end of the book...." —Danielle Hoyt, 17, Student (NY)

"The reader is in for an emotional roller-coaster ride…Because of the light tone of much of the writing, I wasn’t prepared for the deep sadness, but I responded to the way in which Don continues to ‘come to the surface’ after frequent dunking…A quiet, thoughtful man who survived Hell, he manages to make his compassion his chief ally…" —Elsa Cherchak, HS Teacher (CA)