Minnesota author Vince Flynn, famous for his Mitch Rapp novels, died today of prostate cancer in a St. Paul hospital. He passed away surrounded by relatives and friends who prayed the Rosary.
Flynn was supporting himself by bartending when he self-published his first novel, “Term Limits,” in 1997 after getting more than 60 rejection letters. After it became a local best-seller, Pocket Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint, signed him to a two-book deal — and “Term Limits” became a New York Times best-seller in paperback.
The St. Paul-based author also sold millions of books in the international market and averaged about a book a year, most of them focused on Rapp, a CIA counterterrorism operative. His 14th novel, “The Last Man,” was published last year.
R. I. P.
I saw the Wikipedia citation to your review of Flynn’s “Transfer of Power.” Did you mention that on Facebook? I had to correct the note someone left. I made little sense. That led me to verifying a quotation on Flynn’s author page. Oh, being an editor must be in my genes.
I’m amazed anyone would cite me on Wikipedia.
This page on Hans Nielsen Hauge cites your American Spectator article.
I found Rapp to be very much the anti-hero. He did everything we despise in our enemies, but because he did it for a good cause it was ok. While he gained much of his fan base among conservatives, he reflected the post-modern ideal of relativism that is undermining conservative thought today. Rapp exemplified the idea that the ends justify the means. Flynn was a great weaver of stories. I’m just not sure I liked the thread he used to weave them.
That’s pretty much my opinion too, Greybeard, but nil nisi bonum, and all that.
I thought of that after I posted. I apologize for my insensitivity.