

Finally, when James admits that he is “little man” do the adults sit up and take notice. To make the beginning of this book bearable, you will have to skim and scan the first 50 pages. This is a child that is not yet potty trained and cannot yet speak in full sentences, but knows things that are unexplainable. A two and a half year old child that is having night terrors -a child that knows what a drop tank is and that can identify a Japanese fighter by the red meatball on its side. Really, this should not be about the adults this is supposed to be about a child. Not to mention “the panel” made up of Andrea’s sisters that have to discuss every part of James’s life so they can come to a mutual decision on how to move forward.īy page 50, the amateurish dummy-downed ramblings are enough to drive the reader crazy. Oh for goodness sakes, this is supposed to be a book about the reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot not a recap of a previous marriage, an over protective mother and the lenient parental role model that she lived with. In SOUL SURVIVOR, we are taken for a gripping ride as the Leiningers' belief system is shaken to the core, and both of these families come to know a little boy who, against all odds and even in the face of true skeptics, harbors the soul of this man who died long ago. As Bruce Leininger struggled to understand what was happening to his son, he also uncovered details of James Huston's life- and death- as a pilot that will fascinate military buffs everywhere. SOUL SURVIVOR is the story of how the Leiningers pieced together what their son was communicating and eventually discovered that he was reliving the past life of World War II fighter pilot James Huston. When details of planes and war tragedies no two-year-old boy could know continued- even in stark daylight- Bruce and Andrea Leininger began to realize that this was an incredible situation. When James began screaming out recurring phrases like, "Plane on fire! Little man can't get out!" the Leiningers finally admitted that they truly had to take notice. This is the story of James Leininger, who- a little more than two weeks after his second birthday- began having blood-curdling nightmares that just would not stop.
