"... A terrific book. Much of it reads like a wild, imaginative adventure novel. That the story is true and only now coming fully to light makes it all that much more amazing. It can only add to our understanding of how strong men and their convictions and their daring so often lead to calamity, especially for those who believe in and follow them."
         -- The Los Angeles Times

"With the publication of Shooting at the Moon , Roger Warner emerges as the first significant war historian of the post-Vietnam generation."
         -- The Nation

"This is a book about the war in the mountains of Laos between 1961 and 1973. It is not the first, but it is certainly the best."
         -- Journal of Asian Studies

"Better than fiction..."
         -- Houston Chronicle