Vince Flynn

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Vince Flynn is a best-selling American author of political thriller novels. He lives with his family in the Twin Cities, where he is working on a series of political thriller novels. He also serves as a story consultant for the 24 television series.

1 Biography
2 Bibliography
- 2.1 Mitch Rapp Series
3 External links

[edit] Biography

Vince Flynn is a graduate of St. Thomas Academy and the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota). After graduating from college, Vince Flynn went to work for Kraft Foods, where he was an account and sales marketing specialist. In 1990 he left Kraft to accept an aviation candidate slot with the United States Marine Corps. One week before leaving for Officer Candidate School, he was medically disqualified from the Marine Aviation Program.

Growing up a dyslexic child in a large family, he had long been terrified of the written word. Determined to overcome his problem, Flynn forced himself into a daily writing and reading regimen. Quotes Flynn: "I started reading everything I could get my hands on, Hemingway, Ludlum, Clancy, Tolkien, Vidal. I read fiction, nonfiction, anything, but I especially loved espionage."

Flynn soon created an idea for a book, which would grow into his first bestseller, Term Limits. "I had just finished reading The Government Racket: Washington Waste from A to Z, by Martin L. Gross. It is without a doubt the most disheartening and enlightening book about politics that I've ever read. I was out jogging one day wondering what it would take to really change Washington, when my thoughts turned to a friend who had been shot and killed in Washington, D.C., several summers earlier. As I continued running, a story started to unfold."

Flynn worked as a bartender in St. Paul area bars, Tiff's, Plums, and O'Gara's, while he worked on his book in the early 1990's.

Pocket Books published Term Limits in hardcover 1998. It was well received by reviewers. When the mass market paperback of Term Limits was released in 1999, it spent several weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. Pocket Books followed this initial success with Flynn's 1999 hardcover book, Transfer of Power, which also garnered enthusiastic reviews, and when it was released a few months later in mass market paperback, it too spent several weeks on The New York Times bestseller list.

In the Fall of 2000, The Third Option was published and instantly landed on The New York Times bestseller list as well. In 2001, his fourth novel was published, Separation of Power, which also quickly landed on the bestsellers lists, reaching as high as #7 on The New York Times list. His fifth novel, Executive Power, was published in hardcover by Atria Books in May 2003. His sixth novel, Memorial Day, was published in 2004. His seventh novel, Consent To Kill, was published in hardcover on October 10, 2005. His eighth novel, Act Of Treason, was published in October 2006.

[edit] Bibliography

Term Limits (1997) - ISBN 0-671-02317-9 (contains some of the characters from the Mitch Rapp series, but Rapp himself does not appear).

[edit] Mitch Rapp Series

Mitch Rapp is a CIA Special Activities Division ("black ops") counterterrorism agent. In the novels in the series, Mitch is concerned with thwarting Middle Eastern terrorist attacks on the United States.