A Distant Thunder

Description for A DISTANT THUNDER: A POWERFUL NOVEL OF VIETNAM by Richard Parque:

MARINE CAPTAIN AND FIGHTER PILOLT BUID PRITCHARD IS TOO MUCH----EVEN FOR THE MARINE CORPS.

He's a man who doesn't like being boxed in. He wants to know the reasons for the things he does. Unfortunately, on the front lines in Vietnam, those answers can be hard to find.

Here, in the jungles and the rice paddies a nightmare of machine guns and napalm tests a man's personal resolve and integrity. The war begins to hit a little too close to Bud Pritchard's heart when a misguided missile destroys a friendly village. And meanwhile, back home in the States, his wife is challenging his very reasons for being there.

A DISTANT THUNDER

Bud is a man alone---and somehow amid the desperation, mud and blood of the battleground, he must come to peace with himself, his country---and the Marine Corps. But first, he's got to stay alive.