Vortex (Cleary novel)

Vortex
	First UK edition
Author	Jon Cleary
Publisher	Collins (UK); William Morrow (US)
Publication date	1978
Publication place	Australia

Last updated September 02, 2025

Vortex is a 1978 novel written by Australian author Jon Cleary about a tornado attack on a Missouri small town. Cleary wrote a screenplay based on it but no movie resulted.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History Archived 9 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine at National Film and Sound Archive
↑ "CREDIBLE MURDER AND A TORNADO". The Canberra Times . 11 February 1978. p. 17. Retrieved 18 October 2015– via National Library of Australia.

External links

The novel was serialised in 6 parts in the Australian Woman's Weekly – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Vortex at AustLit (subscription required)

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[Vagg-1] Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History Archived 9 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine at National Film and Sound Archive

[2] "CREDIBLE MURDER AND A TORNADO". The Canberra Times . 11 February 1978. p. 17. Retrieved 18 October 2015– via National Library of Australia.

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