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Summary: A great first rate storyteller!
Review: A great book that never lets up until the climatic ening!
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: A great novel and a great overview of winning a war in South America. Also the kind of multithreaded character development that is magical in books that are like this.
Also great descriptions of chemical warfare strikes and it makes the regime in South Africa seem so real. (At least the one that existed the
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Summary: Good mix of plot and character development.
Review: A lesser author could have easily skimped on plot to concentrate on characters or provided highly developed characters with a half-baked story. Mr. Bond did an excellent job of balancing the action with the private lives of the characters. And the number of these well developed characters is also impressive. Whether you like them or not, you definitely care what happens to the majority of the people "onstage," even if they are minor players. The plot does move frustratingly slowly at times but all in all, it's hard to put down.
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Summary: The best ever
Review: Along with Red Storm rising, these books plus Larry Bond's Cauldron define the genre. They are tightly written and show a great grasp of the technology of war. A must buy!
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Summary: SHEER CLASS
Review: An absoultely outstanding technothriller which kept me reading to the very end. Through all the twists and turns, politics and military operations. With a very realistic plot, Larry Bond's knowlage of weaponry is top rate and the detail of the uprising of all the strategic operations was class. Larry Bond has become my favourite author overnight.
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Summary: Excellent book - never ending action
Review: As I live in South Africa , it has been interesting reading Vortex.It is a book that is well written and the action never seems to stop. This book , just like Red Phoenix wouldnot be a dissapointment to anyone.
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Summary: Tremendous and very scarry
Review: Bond is much better than Clancy. I just cannot tear myself from any book that Bond has written. A true author of modern realism in today's world.
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Summary: Tremendous and very scarry
Review: Bond is much better than Clancy. I just cannot tear myself from any book that Bond has written. A true author of modern realism in today's world.
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Summary: Appropriate Title
Review: Enjoyed the way Bond starts a little skirmish and inside political manuevers...and brings about a madman wanting to dominate South Africa and invade his neighboring countries. One by one other countries get pulled into the Vortex of this scenario. Although, it would have been even better had the Soviets been more willing to participate. Bond is easier to read and understand compared to Clancy.
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Summary: Vortex - Superb political/military thriller!
Review: From Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising collaborator and best selling novelist in his own right, in his first novel Red Phoenix, we are treated to Larry Bond's second masterpiece in military/political thriller fiction in Vortex. Larry Bond once again proves his research capability in his studies of all of the cultures of South Africa and their strengths and differences. He has once again, melded his research, his fluent and poignant writing style into a classical work of fiction. In Vortex, he has essentially taken almost every conceivable aspect of a world crisis situation and crafted it into this masterpiece. Where Tom Clancy draws all of the accolades and acclaim, Larry Bond continually produces superb military/political thrillers that are of the same caliber and in the case of Vortex, much larger in scope and overall detail. If you're a Tom Clancy, Harold Coyle, Dale Brown, Stephen Coonts, or one of the many other fine military/political thriller author's fans, you would do well to pick up on Larry Bond and his superior work. The premise: Taking into consideration that this novel was written in the late 80's and early 90's, Larry Bond absorbed the headline news of the time to craft a conceivable real world situation where the boiling point of South Africa could've turned into the very Vortex, of the title, and brought the entire worlds attention to its internal struggles. There could've been no more apropos title for this novel than "Vortex." Vortex as defined in the Webster's dictionary (A situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.) Essentially, Vortex is the story of one man's twisted desires to bring total apartheid to its maximum fruition in Karl Vorster. Through chance and his own machinations, he effectively seizes control of the South African government and begins to bring to realization his perverted dreams of total apartheid and the destruction of his opponents or anyone else who gets in his way. Given South Africa's mineral wealth and that strategic importance to both Western and Eastern powers, this quickly draws their collective attentions. What follows is a tour de force of flurried action, suspense and outstanding military fiction, which brings many players to the table to include; the United States, Britain, Israel, Russia, Cuba and Libya. Hence the title of "Vortex." Where these many players are all drawn to South Africa and its mineral wealth. {ssintrepid}
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