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VORTEX [154-011-3.9]

By: LARRY BOND

Category: fiction military

Synopsis:

Written before the end of Apartheid, this book describes military

operations that bring about the end of the institution.

Also by Larry Bond

RED PHOENIX

Published by

WARNER BOOKS

A Time Warner Company If you purchase this book without a cover you

should be aware that this book may have been stolen property and

reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the publisher. In such case

neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this

"stripped book.

A signed first edition of this book has been privately printed by The

Franklin Library.

WARNER BOOKS EDITION

reserved.

Cover design and illustration by Peter Thorpe

Book design by H. Roberts

Map by Giorgetta Bell McRee

Warner Books, Inc. 1271 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020 a A Time Warner Company

Printed in the United States of America

Originally published in hardcover by Warner Books.

First Printed in Paperback: June, 1992

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 Dedicated to our brothers and sisters, Mary Adams

and Jim Bond, Erin Larkin-Foster, and Colin, Ian, Duncan, and

Christopher Larkin.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to thank Jim Baker, Jeff Bowen, Greg Browne, Jerry

Cain,

Jeff Cavin, John Chrzas, Col. Terry Crews and Grace Crews, Dan and

Carmel

Fisk, Bill Ford, John Goetke, Bill Grijalba, Peter Hilsenrath, Jason

Hunter, Dick Kane and Presidio Press, Don and Marilyn Larkin, John

Moser,

Deb Mullaney, Bill Paley and Bridget Rivoli, Tim Peckinpaugh and Pam

McKinney-Peckinpaugh, Jeff and Deena Pluhar, Jeff Richelson, Dick

Ristaine, Michael J. Solon, Bruce Spaulding, Steve St. Clair, Thomas

T. Thomas, Chris Williams, and Joy Schumack of the Solano County

Bookmobile

Service.

Special thanks to Steve Cole and his newsletter, For Your kyes Only,

and

Steve Petrick, for their assistance in reviewing the manuscript.

For Your Lyes Only was very useful in writing Vortex, and I recommend

it as a way of keeping up with military and conflict issues around the

world. Write to Tiger Publications, PO Box 8759, Amarillo, TX

79114-8759.

Finally, we would like to thank two men without whose constant and

invaluable aid and advice this book could never have emerged from our

word processors: our editor at Warner Books, Mel Parker, and our

agent,

Robert Gottlieb of William Morris.

AUTHORS NOTE

Though Patrick Larkin's name does not appear on the front cover, Vortex

is his book as much as it is mine.

This is the second book that Pat and I have written together,

collaborating from start to finish. In a process that lasted nearly

eighteen months, we helped each other over literary hurdles, argued

politics, tactics, and strategy, and spurred each other on as the

deadline approached. Like all good teams, we believe our work together

reinforces our individual strengths and skills.

We hope you enjoy the story we've tried to tell.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

AMERICANS:

Lieutenant Colonel Mike Carrerra, U.S. Army-Commanding officer of

1/75th Ranger Battalion.

Lieutenant General Jerry Craig, USMC-Commanding officer of the 2nd

Marine Expeditionary Force and later the Allied South African Joint

Task Force.

Lieutenant Nick Dworski, U.S. Army Special Forces Executive officer for

Jeff Hawkins's A Team.

James Malcolm Forrester-Vice President of the United States, chairman

of the National Security Council.

Staff Sergeant Mike Griffith, U.S. Army Special Forces -Assigned as the

heavy weapons specialist for Jeff Hawkins's A Team.

Captain Jeff Hawkins, U.S. Army Special Forces-Commanding officer of a

Green Beret A Team.

General Walter Hickman, U.S. Air Force-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of

Staff.

Edward Hurley-Assistant secretary of state for African Affairs, U.S.

State Department.

All

AV DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Lieutenant Jack "Ice" Isaacs, USN-A Navy F/A- 18 pilot. Captain

Peter

Klocek, U.S. Army-Operations officer of the 1/75th Ranger Battalion.

Sam Knowles-Ian Sheffield's cameraman.

Captain Thomas Malloy, USN-Commanding officer of the Iowa-class

battleship Wisconsin.,

General Wesley Masters, USMC-Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps.

Christopher Nicholson- Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Lieutenant Colonel Robert O"Connell, U.S. Army-Acting commanding

officer of the 1/75th Ranger Battalion, later commander 75th Ranger

Regiment.

Hamilton Reid-Secretary of commerce.

Ian Sheffield-An American journalist assigned to South Africa.

Brigadier General George Skiles, U.S. Army-Chief of staff of the Allied

South African Expeditionary Force.

Rear Admiral Andrew Douglas Stewart, USN-Commander of the carrier group

including the Nimitz-class carrier Carl Vinson, later commander of

Allied naval forces operating off the South African coast.

Major General Samuel Weber, U.S. Army-Commanding officer of the 24th

Mechanized Infantry Division.

SOUTH AFRICANS:

Captain Rolf Bekker, South African Defense Force (SADF)--Company

commander, 2nd Battalion, the 44th Parachute Regiment.

Brigadier Deneys Coetzee, SADF-A close friend of Henrik Kruger, now

assigned to Army staff headquarters in Pretoria.

Brigadier Franz Diederichs, Security Branch, South African

Police-Special military commissioner of Natal Province.

Major Richard Forbes, SADF-Executive officer of the 20th Cape Rifles.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE XV

Frederick Haymans-President of the Republic of South Africa.

Colonel Magnus Heerden, SADF-Head of Military Intelligence Branch of

the Directorate of Military Intelligence.

Constand Heitman-South African minister of defense in Vorster's

cabinet.

David Kotane-ANC guerrilla leader commanding the Broken Covenant strike

force.

Commandant Henrik Kruger, SADF-Commander, 20th Cape Rifles.

Colonel Sese Luthuli--A senior officer in Umkhonto we Sizwe, the

military arm of the African National Congress.

Helmoed Malherbe-South African minister of industries and commerce in

Vorster's cabinet.

Gideon Mantizima- Leader of Inkatha, the Zulu political movement, and

chief minister of KwaZulu, the nominally independent Zulu tribal

homeland inside South Africa's Natal Province.

Major Willem Metje, SADF-Assigned to Military Intelligence Branch of

the

Erik Muller--Head of the South African Directorate of Military

Intelligence.

Riaan Oost--A South African farmer acting as a deep-cover mole for

the

ANC.

Colonel Frans Peiper, SADF-Commanding officer of the 61 st Transvaal

Rifles, the battalion guarding South Africa's Pelindaba Nuclear

Research Complex.

Fredrik Pienaar-South African minister of information in Vorster's

cabinet.

Sergeant Gerrit Roost, SADF-Capt. Rolf Bekker's headquarters

sergeant.

Andrew Sebe-An ANC guerrilla and member of the Broken Covenant strike

force.

Matthew Sibena-A Xhosa resident of Johannesburg assigned as a driver

for Ian Sheffield and Sam Knowles.

Jaime Steers-A fourteen-year-old fighting as part of the Transvaal

Commando "Goetke. "

Major Chris Taylor, SADF-Executive officer of a Citizen Force infantry

battalion based in Cape Town.

Emily van der Heijden-Only child of Marius van der Heijden.

Marius van der Heijden-Deputy minister, South African Ministry of Law

and Order, in Vorster's cabinet.

Colonel George von Brandis, SADF-Commanding officer of the 5th

Mechanized Infantry Battalion.

Karl Vorster-South Africa's minister of law and order and later

president of the Republic of South Africa.

Corporal de Vries, SADF-Capt. Rolf Bekker's radio operator.

General Adriaan de Wet, SADF-Chief of the South African Defense

Force.

CUBANS:

Senior Captain Victor Mares, Cuban Army-Executive officer of the 8th

Motor Rifle Battalion in Namibia, and later commander of the First

Brigade Tactical Group's recormaissarice battalion.

Colonel Jost~ Suarez, Cuban Army-General Vega's chief of staff.

Colonel Jaume Vasquez, Cuban Army-General Vega's chief of

intelligence.

General Antonio Vega, Cuban Army-Commanding officer of Cuban forces in

Angola and later in the South African theater.

MOZAMBICANS:

Captain Jorge de Sousa-The Mozambican officer assigned to serve as a

liaison between Vega's forces and the Mozambican Army.

BRITISH:

Major John Farwell, British Army-Commanding officer, A Company, 3rd

Battalion, the Parachute Regiment.

Captain David Pryce, British Army-Troop commander, 22nd Special Air

Service Regiment, attached to the Quantum assault force.

ISRAELIS:

Professor Esher Levi--An Israeli nuclear scientist familiar with South

Africa's nuclear weapons proc gram

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