Larry Bond

As of 2023, Larry Bond is 71 and lives with his wife Jeanne in Virginia, outside Washington DC. After co-authoring Red Storm Rising with Tom Clancy, he wrote five novels with Pat Larkin: Red Phoenix, Vortex, Cauldron, The Enemy Within, and Day of Wrath. He then teamed with Chris Carlson to write the six books of the Jerry Mitchell series: Dangerous Ground, Cold Choices, Exit Plan, Shattered Trident, Fatal Thunder, and Arctic Gambit. He and Chris Carlson also wrote the novel Lash-Up.

All three authors, Larry, Chris, and Pat teamed to write a sequel to Red Phoenix, titled Red Phoenix Burning.

He has also co-designed the Admiralty Trilogy series games, which include Harpoon, Command at Sea, Fear God & Dreadnought, and Dawn of the Battleship.

Larry's writing career started by collaborating with Tom Clancy on Red Storm Rising, a runaway New York Times bestseller that has was one of the biggest-selling books of the 1980s. It depicted a hypothetical conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, drawing heavily on expert analysis of what such a conflict would be like. It has been used as a text at the Naval War College and similar institutions.

In June of 2004, because of his many award-winning game designs, as well as over 20 years' experience in gaming and writing, Larry was inducted into the International Hall of Fame by the Game Manufacturers Association.

Graduating from St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minnesota in 1973 with a degree in Quantitative Methods, Larry worked first as a computer programmer for two years before being selected for Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. He was sworn into the Navy in 1975 and graduated from OCS the following year.

Larry was in the active Navy for six years, serving four on a destroyer and two on shore duty in the Washington DC area. He served in the reserves for two years with the Naval Reserve Intelligence Program. After leaving the Navy, he worked as a naval analyst for defense consulting firms in the Washington, DC area. He now writes and designs games full-time.

Larry is an avid wargamer and modeler.