Larry Bond crafts bestselling military thrillers that delve into the intricacies of naval warfare and technological strategy. His background as a naval officer and expert in antisubmarine technology imbues his narratives with remarkable authenticity and tension. Bond's approach to storytelling is rooted in a deep understanding of complex military operations, resulting in suspenseful plots and realistic portrayals of conflict. He excels at translating technical expertise into compelling fiction that captivates readers with its strategic depth and thrilling execution.
A novel predicting a future World War with the United States, Great Britain, and the new Eastern European democracies battling an European empire controlled by France and Germany and aided by a neo-Stalinist Russia.
This thundering geopolitical thriller dares reveal the military hardware, global upheavals, and raw combat that a second Korean War would unleash.
In a world no longer dominated by two super powers, the theatre of conflict has shifted to the Third World - but with a deadly uncertainty never known before. The flashpoint is South Africa where a repressive regime has catapulted to power. The result is a conflict that will rage across the whole of southern Africa. It will realise many of man's worst fears, including the full-scale use of both chemical and nuclear weapons. It will raise the nightmare spectre of race war, global economic collapse, and Armageddon itself. As chaos threatens to spread across an entire continent, the United States mobilises for the military operation code-named Brave Fortune, the campaign it cannot afford to lose. Here are the weapons and the warfare, the diplomatic intrigue and the blueprints for modern combat that exemplify the art of the techno-thriller at its finest.
Growing up in Iran, Peter Thorn and Amir Taleh become friends, but as the political situation changes, a chasm opens up between them. Years later, Peter heads an operation to hunt down a rutheless terrorist cell. He must piece together the terrorist's chilling plan and confront his own past.
A plane carrying an American arms inspection team mysteriously falls out of the sky. A senior U.S. diplomat is daringly assassinated. These are but warning shots to the most devastating terrorist conspiracy ever, conceived and paid for by a cunning Saudi prince who is one of the world's richest men. Burning across Russia, Europe, then home to America itself, the plot threatens to ignite in a single, apocalyptic millisecond. Only two operatives have a prayer of stopping it --- Army Colonel Peter Thorn and FBI Special Agent Helen Gray, themselves on the run from the very people they're fighting to protect.
The First Team joins forces with the FBI and the Israeli Mossad to investigate a radical cult of fanatics, linked to the Iraqi resistance and a Syrian arms dealer, out to create a new world with a catastrophic religious war with Jerusalem at its center.
This memoir follows a young man from his teenage years as a bloodhound trainer, farmworker, and student in and out of colleges and marriages to the battlefields of Vietnam. His mission is: to keep Americans alive. Often irreverent, this book examines leadership in combat situations and the gut-wrenching decisions that must be made. Aeronautics, physiology of a crash, PTSD, and detailed accounts of actual battles are reported and examined from a been there done that perspective. The book takes you on a roller coaster ride of successes and failures, as Bond evolves from an idealistic teenager to becomes one of the more decorated combat veterans in our Nation's history. Beginning with some of the history which accompanied him into combat, he weaves a tale of contrasts. Confronted with age-old questions of what is worth living for or dying for, he leads us through the decisions he faced and resolved for better or worse.
"The New York Times" bestselling author of the classic technothrillers" Red Phoenix" and "Day of Wrath," Larry Bond has won praise for the gritty authenticity of his military-political adventures as well as for his matchless talent at generating edge-of-your-seat suspense. Now Bond debutes an exciting new series that rockets straight from the cutting edge of America's war on terror . . . Officially designated the Joint Services Special Demands Project, "The Team" is a unique unit created to address unconventional threats in an unconventional manner, beyond the beurocratic restraints of either the U.S. intelligence or military establishments. With an almost unlimited budget, the Team, consisting of a CIA officer, two Special Forces commandos, and one outnumbered Marine--is authorized to track vital intel and then take immediate action. A radical response to perilous times, the Team has never been more needed than this very moment: a quantity of radioactive waste, being shipped across the former Soviet Union, has gone missing. In the wrong hands, the stolen material can be converted into a "dirty bomb" capable of rendering any American city uninhabitable for centuries. With time running out, the Team must locate and neutralize the threat--unaware that their unseen enemy has already chosen a target: the island paradise of Honolulu.
