MWSA Book Review

Good, Better, Best

Authors:  James Bradley

Publisher:  Wordsmith Publishing

Reviewer: Bill McDonald – President of the MWSA

The Book is just as the title suggests: Good, Better, Best!

Author James Bradley has crafted a wonderful fictional autobiography which reads like his life. The main character, Jim Rooney, is both believable and alive with emotion and feelings. In his wonderful coming of age tale of a young man becoming a warrior, Bradley chronicles and fashions a story of rare sensitivity and action. “Good, Better, Best – From the Streets of Brooklyn to the Jungles of Vietnam,” captures well that time and place in history. The Vietnam War comes alive though the telling of his story.

We follow the young hero as he leaves home and begins his career with the US Army. He ends up in Vietnam and in the thick of combat. The action is equal in strength to the author’s creative treatment of the relationships between the characters in the novel. This is a story not just about war but about the men who were in war. The sensitive insights that flow almost casually in the background of the plot line are a product of intelligent wording and phrasing by the author. He takes the reader on a adventurous journey and continues to hold your attention from the beginning to the last words on the last page.

This is a novel of great merit. It will give the reader an insider look at what the Vietnam War was like for some of those airborne troops serving there at that time of our history. Bradley is obviously a very talented writer who has spun a credible tale about war and people that is well worth your time to read. I personally recommend this book!