This book is about a troubled Vietnam Veteran whose daughter has cancer. Instead of getting a legitimate job and saving hard to finance her much neded operation this guy decides he is going to become a drug dealer and sell marijuana with his buddies!!!No doubt in a couple of years time some of his customers will have graduated to using Heroin but this fact is conveniently overlooked by the author. The message that the author sems to be sending out in this book is that "It is okay to turn to a Life of Crime and Illegal Activity if you have got a good enough reason.This is a very disappointing book by an author who has done much better work in his career as a writer.I give this book 5 stars because the author manages to almost convince the reader that a Life Of Crime is a viable Career Option of you don't have any cash to spare.

Going into a Virtual Book Box

Posting to nikel27

thanks for letting me be part in your virt. BookBox.
I am looking forward to read a book by this author.

update:
thanks for sharing this great book with me

went into momofap’s Anything Paperback Virtual Book Box

RELEASE NOTES:

EnJoy the Book !!!

Received from momofap's virtual paperback bookbox. It sounds like an interesting read ...

I'm sending this one without reading it as it's been sitting on my shelf for too long. Oliviapoolside requested it from the Anything Goes VBB by smd427.

Thank you for sending this book, it looks brand new! I am looking forward to another great read!

One of my sons read this book yesterday and liked it. It is still on my TBR as I have not read it yet. He did say that there is a lot of Australian slang and many military terms. There is a glossary in the back but a lot of the slang is not in there, probably assuming the book will be read mostly by Australians who already know their own slang.

I loved this book, read it in one sitting, crying my way through it. I was a young teenager during the Vietnam War, but was deeply affected by it. I still cry over it when reminded of it by music, books or pictures. Told a friend a couple of years ago that I was sad because of the Vietnam War. She told me it was over. I laughed as that statement hit me with a kind of shock. I know it is over, obviously, but in my heart I guess it is not over.
I knew only casually a boy who had been in the war, I was not personally affected through a family member or good friend. Yet that war colored my world. I grieved, I still grieve. It made me more of a patriot, not because I was impressed with our government as I was not, but because I loved our boys and couldn't stand how our country gave away their lives and didn't even thank them. I want very much to visit the Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. and I try to attend Memorial Day events. These were our boys, they deserve recognition, thanks and love. I was also think the Australians were a lot smarter sending boys who were older and better trained for jungle warfare. Even so, it was terrible for everyone. The Agent Orange spraying was simply criminal and the cover-ups and denials made it just that much worse.

I am going to list this book in the ABC VBB.

This was not chosen in the ABC VBB so I am going to put it into bookstogive's Lit/Fic VBB, see if there are any takers.

Poor little book, not chosen again. This time it is going into Alphabet Box for the letter "S".

I released this into the Alphabet Bookbox to replace an "S" book that I took.

I'm claiming this well-traveled book from the A-to-Z bookbox, due in part to BooksandMusic's review.

I enjoyed this book very much, both for its view of the Vietnam war from an Australian perspective and for its band-of-brothers concept as very disparate characters come together in a scheme that, however well-intentioned, could have been disastrous. [While I see jackson371's point about the unfortunate implication that "crime sometimes DOES pay", I did think that the whole marijuana subplot was handled well, and of course recent decriminalization of marijuana - though still sporadic - makes me feel less upset about the gang's choice of projects than if they'd been going for more destructive substances or had tried to turn it into an ongoing business instead of one big crop.]

I did find the plot a bit uneven, but overall I got attached to the characters, and felt for their suffering from the aftermath of the war, from post-traumatic stress to more overt fallout from Agent Orange. When it became clear that the big fund-raising campaign would probably not be of use to Thommo and Wendy - and they knew it - I got very worried...

While many of the subjects are grim, the story itself is lively and often funny, with some beautiful moments of love and friendship. I admit to getting a wee bit teary by the end. Thanks for sharing this!

I plan to leave this book in or near the American Legion post on Court Street at around 4:30 or so; hope the finder enjoys it!

*** Released as part of the 2015 Keep Them Moving release challenge. ***

Can't wait to read and release.