"Pat McAfee's On Rims of Empty Moons is the sometimes violent, always lonely spiritual journey of a lifetime that takes John McBride from the hardscrabble plains of Texas to the jungles of Vietnam. It's a bruising trip that too many tough but unprepared young men from the West have taken. The lucky ones came home alive. The luckiest came having learned the hard way what is most important in life - a deep and abiding love of the land, a woman and a family - simple values that transcend national borders, political empires, generations. McAfee sets his fiction in the West, but the truths he writes about are universal, his insights poignant, his story rich and real and haunting. If you're looking for a book you'll be thinking about long after you've finished the last page, this one's for you - a swift, proud cutting horse in a herd of swaybacked nags." Review by Gregory Bean Author of the Harry Starbranch series of Wyoming mysteries: No Comfort in Victory, Long Shadows in Victory, and A Death in Victory.