Posted on 10/14/2009 6:52:09 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
Monday night, Glenn Beck interviewed mega-selling author Vince Flynn, whose thrillers star Mitch Rapp, a CIA agent who makes Jack Bauer and Dirty Harry seem like members of the Nobel Committee. His new book, Pursuit of Honor, came out Tuesday.
Flynn is particularly popular with conservatives, and invariably makes an appearance or two with Beck—and even Limbaugh—when his new book is released. And to answer the question I get from readers nearly every time I review fiction, yes, I AM working on a review right now.
Glenn liked the book—a LOT…
BECK: Vince Flynn, author of a brand-new thriller - it is called Pursuit of Honor, hits the bookstores tomorrow. I finished it. I actually tweeted about it this weekend. You don't get my tweets?VINCE FLYNN, No, not really. I need to time to…
BECK: Sure, sure, sure. Whatever. I was going to say this is a fantastic book - in fact, I think the best he has ever written. In fact, I know it is the best. And let's just say chapter - is it 50?
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Vince Flynn is awesome. Another author that is almost exactly like him is Brad Thor. Check them out if you like seeing the bad guys get what’s coming to them!
SNIPPET from the link in post no. 2:
“It’s a good thing Glenn Beck is obviously very in love with his wife, and I’m starting to get his sense of humor, or at that point I would have had to cover my ears and leave the room shouting “too much information!”
But for anyone who ever wanted to call a liberal on the carpet for the fact that they are more sympathetic to murdering scum than innocent unborn babies, it definitely IS an exciting moment—and that’s ALL I’m going to say about it.
And, I should mention that this book is almost calculated to give card carrying members of the ACLU a collective stroke.”
I got interested in Term Limits after I read that Bill Clinton was reading it shortly after the Monika Lewinsky affair finally broke in the State Controlled Media —WHAT A BOOK...!!!!
If you really, reallly like JUSTICE? THIS IS YOUR MAN..!
Like Clancy before he got rich as hell, soft, and started whoring out his name to game-makers and Rainbow stuff.
If you like graphic detail of bad guys getting their brains shot out...that is his SPECIALTY..!!
why are the elected presidents always dems in his books?
Thank you Cindy. :-)
You’re welcome.
The fifth of seven children, Vince Flynn was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1966. He graduated from the St. Thomas Academy in 1984, and the University of St. Thomas with a degree in economics in 1988. After college he went to work for Kraft General 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 Officers Candidate School, he was medically disqualified from the Marine Aviation Program, due to several concussions and convulsive seizures he suffered growing up. While trying to obtain a medical waiver for his condition, he started thinking about writing a book. This was a very unusual choice for Flynn since he had been diagnosed with dyslexia in grade school and had struggled with reading and writing all his life.
Having been stymied by the Marine Corps, Flynn returned to the nine-to-five grind and took a job with United Properties, a commercial real estate company in the Twin Cities. During his spare time he worked on an idea he had for a book. After two years with United Properties he decided to take a big gamble. He quit his job, moved to Colorado, and began working full time on what would eventually become Term Limits . Like many struggling artists before him, he bartended at night and wrote during the day. Five years and more than sixty rejection letters later he took the unusual step of self-publishing his first novel. The book went to number one in the Twin Cities, and within a week had a new agent and two-book deal with Pocket Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint.
Term Limits hit the New York Times bestseller list in paperback and started a trend for all of Flynn's novels. Since then, his books have become perennial bestsellers in both paperback and hardcover, and he has become known for his research and prescient warnings about the rise of Islamic Radical Fundamentalism and terrorism. Read by current and former presidents, foreign heads of state, and intelligence professionals around the world, Flynn's novels are taken so seriously one high-ranking CIA official told his people, "I want you to read Flynn's books and start thinking about how we can more effectively wage this war on terror."
October 2007 marked another milestone in Flynn's career when his ninth political thriller, Protect and Defend, became a #1 New York Times bestseller. A few months later, CBS Films optioned the rights for Flynn's Mitch Rapp character with the intention of creating a character-based, action-thriller movie franchise. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who previously launched the Harry Potter and Matrix films as head of production at Warner Bros., and Nick Wechsler (We Own the Night, Reservation Road) will produce the films.
Flynn lives in the Twin Cities with his wife and three children.
Works by Flynn include Transfer of Power, The Third Option, Separation of Power , Executive Power , Memorial Day, Consent to Kill, Act of Treason, and Extreme Measures.
Influences: Ernest Hemingway, Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gore Vidal, and John Irving
Transfer of Power The Third Option Separation of Power Executive Power Influences:Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gore Vidal and John Irving
He's obviously one of these rare people who had a big dream, and never quit.
I’ve been waiting for Pursuit of Honor to come out. I’ve read all his other Mitch Rapp novels.
Honesty, not a big fan-—too much trying to be Tom Clancy...
Five years and more than sixty rejection letters later he took the unusual step of self-publishing his first novel.
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