- His prostate cancer http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/news/story/2012-02-06/vince-flynn-books/52979550/1
- His dyslexia http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4368539/vince-flynn-on-overcoming-dyslexia/?playlist_id=87057
- Homeland security and
current events
- Politics in his books http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/thriller-novels-reflect-the-partisan-politics-of-our-time/2012/10/11/21ea0ee8-0721-11e2-afff-d6c7f20a83bf_story.html
- Upcoming movie based on
his books (Bruce Willis, Chis Hemsworth) http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/chris-hemsworth-offered-10-million-to-play-terrorist-hunter-mitch-rapp-in-american-assassin/
- Meeting George W. Bush and Bill Clinton www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uhbbhWWuMU&feature=related#t=22m38s
- His reaction to Lee
Child’s criticism http://www.playboy.com/playground/view/playboy-interview-lee-child?page=4
- Calling his fans on the
phone http://www.startribune.com/printarticle/?id=173728451
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Fast Facts
·
The Last Man will be Vince’s
fourteenth novel,
the thirteenth featuring counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp.
·
He is a multi-time #1 New York Times
bestselling author having hit the list for every book
he’s ever written. He
has sold over 15 million copies of his books worldwide
(Not bad for a guy who grew up dyslexic and self
published his first book, selling it himself throughout his home
state of Minnesota before getting noticed by Emily Bestler).
·
Vince has fans inside
the beltway and in heads of state across the world: he’s heard personally from
both President Bill Clinton
and President George
W. Bush that they’re big fans, and has heard through the DC
grapevine (unconfirmed) that President
Obama is also a Vince Flynn reader, with his favorite being Vince’s
first, Term Limits. Central Intelligence Agency Directors and
Defense Secretaries have personally told Vince that they read his books. Even King Abdullah II of Jordan
(right) has hosted Vince in his palace and requests each new book for his
enjoyment.
·
Known throughout the intelligence community as a
novelist who at times is (as President Bush put it) “a little too accurate,” several of Vince’s books have been
put on security review by the Pentagon before they could be released or
have been used by Secret Service to modify protocols or identify possible
lapses in their security.
·
Always prescient, the early pages of Memorial Day, which was published in
2004, describes a scenario
where the Joint Special Operations Command sends a strike team over the border
from Afghanistan into Pakistan to capture a high value target. It reads almost as word for word
transcript of the details that have come out about the operation to kill Osama
bin Laden last spring. In
the book the U.S. Government does not inform the Pakistani government because they
know the terrorists are in bed with their intelligence service.
·
Vince Flynn worked with producers Howard Gordon
and Joel Surnow of Fox’s hit show, 24, consulting on story lines for Season 5.
·
CBS Films has 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. Bruce
Willis has signed onto the project.
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