Examples of his numerous novels include Dangerous Ground, Day of Wrath, The Enemy Within, Cauldron, Vortex and Red Phoenix.

In 1973, Bond graduated from St. Thomas College with a degree in quantitative methods, and worked as a computer programmer for two years before joining the U.S.

[3][4] Bond graduated from the United States Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1976.

Bond's began his writing career by collaborating with Tom Clancy on Red Storm Rising (1986), a New York Times bestseller that was one of the best-selling books of the 1980s.

Vortex tells the story of a reactionary Afrikaner government trying to roll back the clock in South Africa.