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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Vortex by Larry Bond Vortex by Larry Bond Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Vortex by Larry Bond Vortex by Larry Bond. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 657914634945f14a • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Vortex — Larry Bond. In the bestselling Red Phoenix, Lam Bond showed, in a world of explosive uncertainty, what a new Korean War would be like. Now, in VORTEX, he takes his storytelling powers one astonishing step further in an epic novel set in one of the most emotionally charged global flashpoints today--South Africa. As the forces of white supremacy make their last ruthless stand, as chaos threatens an entire continent, and as the world is faced with Armageddon itself. America mobilizes Operation Brave Fortune, a full-scale war effort it will wage on land, at sea, in the air. Vortex (Larry Bond) Larry Bond’s Vortex is a tale of war in southern Africa, as a revanchanist South Africa seeks to retake Namibia, with the opposition of Cuba and the Americans drawn into it. My first proper Larry Bond novel in some time, I wanted to see how this, his last pre-Soviet collapse novel went. And the answer, sadly, is “not too well”. I knew his style, and, starting this blog, thought it was a lot more common than it actually was. I knew it’d have a lot of conference room scenes. I knew it would have a very long opening act to set up the war everyone knows is going to happen. I knew it would hop around viewpoint characters a lot and focus on each and every part of the war. Yet I wasn’t prepared for how excessive all of it would be. This is the longest, clunkiest, and, I hate to say it, worst Larry Bond I’ve read. It takes over a hundred pages just to get to the conference rooms. The book has this weird “too hot and too cold” feeling where it stays for a while on a low-rate cloak and dagger plot in the first half and then explodes into too many tangled threads in the second. Naturally, all of this makes the ending too contrived and neat. This is a shame because the premise-expanding on a real conflict with truly interesting participants and tactics in a theater of war genuinely unfamiliar to many Americans-is a very good one. Which makes it being squandered in this huge mess all the worse. Bond has written much better than this, and his other works have similar-level battle scenes without the structural failings here. Literature / Vortex. The novel has Loads and Loads of Characters. Some of the more important ones include: Karl Vorster and his henchmen Erik Muller and Marius van der Heijden. Henrik Kruger, Kommandant of the 20th Cape Rifles and the main viewpoint character for the SADF. Captain (later Major) Rolf Bekker, 44th Parachute Regiment. General Antonio Vega, Commanding officer of Cuban forces in Angola and the South African theatre. The primary Cuban POV character. Senior Captain Victor Mares, 8th Motor Rifle Battalion. Serves as the POV character for Cuban field operations. James Malcolm Forrester, Vice-President of the United States of America. Colonel Robert O'Connell of the 1/75th Ranger battalion. Lieutenant- General Jerry Craig, Commander of the Allied South African Joint Task Force. Ian Sherrfield, an American reporter who leaks the truth about Vorster to the world at large. The novel sold well and recieved good reviews. It was followed by Cauldron , Bond's third novel with Larkin. Books. Larry Bond's fiction centers around military and political conflicts, focusing as much on fast-paced action as on portraying with high accuracy the workings of the military. The list is sorted with the most recent works first, and series are grouped together. Each book cover is linked to the publisher's website, unless it is out of print. Red Dragon Rising — with Jim de Felice. Watch the Trailer (wmv) • Jim de Felice interviews Larry Bond (wmv) Red Dragon Rising: Shadows of War. The first of a four-book series that looks into a dangerous future. In 2014, climate change has pushed the world to the boiling point. China faces drought and famine; gas costs $14.39 a gallon in the US, Europe has problems of its own. China sets her sights on food-rich Vietnam, and engineers a casus belli designed to justify her aggression, but Josh McArthur, a climatologist doing field work near the border, escapes the massacre of his research team and finds evidence of another - evidence that would discredit Chinese claims and frustrate their plans. Josh must not only escape the Chinese agents hunting him, but he's in the middle of a fast-moving war that is swallowing the country. Josh needs help, and gets it from several places, but he needs to get his information, and himself, if possible, to safe hands. Red Dragon Rising: Edge of War. With CIA agent Mara Duncan helping him, Josh McArthur tries to escape the Chinese invasion of Vietnam, and the Chinese agents searching for him, but the war is widening. Other countries are standing with the Chinese "victims," but the US president has received word of Josh's information, and takes measures to slow the Chinese forces until he has the proof in his hands. The US finds itself facing off against Chinese forces at sea, while US officials argue about the cost of a new war to an already crippled economy. The American President knows Vietnam is only the beginning. If China is not stopped, the world will be consumed. Red Dragon Rising: Shock of War. In the third book in the Red Dragon Rising series, Major Zeus Murphy and Win Christian, under secret orders from the US President, work with the Vietnamese army to delay the Chinese juggernaut rolling down from the north. Wracked by famine, China is invading her southern neighbor both to gain precious foodstuffs and as a first step in conquering all of Asia. Zeus and Christian cobble together desperate plans to buy time, but the often find themselves behind enemy lines and in the thick of the fighting. In Hanoi, Zeus has found someone to care about, but loses her almost as quickly. He will have to risk everything to save her. Off the coast of Vietnam, the US Aegis destroyer McLane and her captain, Dirk Silas, face off against a typhoon, as well as superior Chinese forces, frustrating their plans while carefully maintaining American neutrality. Back in the US, President Greene tries to make the public and Congress understand the danger the distant war represents, but it's hard going against a US mired in a recession and a relentless Chinese propaganda campaign. In the end, he can't even get the Pentagon to support him. Red Dragon Rising: Blood of War. Available January 22, 2013. Blood of War is the fourth and final book in the Red Dragon Rising Series. In a not-too-different and not-too-distant future, climate change has rearranged crop patterns, triggered water shortages, and ravaged the landscape with extreme weather. Driven by famine, the Chinese offensive into Vietnam is driving farther and farther south, with increasingly desperate measures by the Vietnamese military only slowing their advance, not stopping it. Josh McArthur, the scientist whose discovery of Chinese atrocities robbed China of her political cover, is still being pursued by Jing Yo, who is determined to punish Josh and Mara Duncan both for their actions against China, and the death of his lover, Hyuen. As sea, Captain Dirk Silas and USS McLane have to sail on a knife's edge, frustrating Chinese naval ambitions while avoiding open conflict. Although successful in protecting US interests, he faces a more powerful Chinese force in a final showdown. Zeus Murphy, advising the Vietnamese commanders, has to work not only against the Chinese enemy, but wavering US support, threatening to pull him away from where he is needed most. Using bold action time and again to counter the massive Chinese assault, he risks everything not only for his Vietnamese friends, but his own love, Anna. The Jerry Mitchell Series — with Chris Carlson. Dangerous Ground. Jerry Mitchell, a fighter pilot grounded by an injury after a crash, fights the Navy�s plan to give him a medical discharge. Instead, he joins the submarine service, and fights to become accepted as a valuable member of the crew. Along the way, he must deal with exotic and dangerous technology, a hostile captain, an impossible mission, and in the end, a threat nobody had expected. Cold Choices. New York Times Bestseller. Following the events Jerry Mitchell encountered in Dangerous Ground, the pilot-turned-submarine officer is now a department head, the navigator aboard USS Seawolf. Now on a mission in the Barents Sea, north of Russia, Seawolf explores the sea floor, part of a sophisticated reconnaissance plan that will watch the Russian navy as it trains for battle.
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