VJ Books Features Vince Flynn!

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. During his spare time he worked on an idea he had for a book. After two years, 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.

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.”

Flynn lives in the Twin Cities with his wife and three children.

Check out the Vince Flynn interview on his very hopeful battle with cancer.

To see Vince Flynn's bibliography, click here or scroll to the bottom of the page.

Kill Shot                  Signed First Edition

Collector's Edition Trilogy Signed First Edition

Collector's Edition Trilogy Signed First Edition

Collector's Edition Trilogy            Signed First Edition

Protect and Defend            Signed First Edition

Consent to Kill       Signed First Edition

Vince Flynn Bibliography

Mitch Rapp Series

·         Transfer of Power (1999)

·         The Third Option (2000)

·         Separation of Power (2001)

·         Executive Power (2002)

·         Memorial Day (2004)

·         Consent to Kill (2005)

·         Act of Treason (2006)

·         Protect and Defend (2007)

·         Extreme Measures (2008)

·         Pursuit of Honor (2009)

·         American Assassin (2010)

·         Vince Flynn's Collector's Edition Trilogy: Term Limits, Transfer of Power, and The Third Option (2010)

·         Vince Flynn's Collector's Edition Trilogy: Extreme Measures, Pursuit of Honor, and American Assassin (December 2011)

·         Vince Flynn's Collector's Edition Trilogy: Consent to Kill, Act of Treason, and Protect and Defend (December 2011)

·         Kill Shot - (February 2012)

Other Novels

·         Term Limits (1997)

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