Six super facts about the man who brought us Mitch Rapp

Vince Flynn, the man behind the Mitch Rapp series of political thrillers, left behind a legacy of gripping action novels before his untimely death from cancer in 2013 at the age of 47.

The acclaimed author actually came to writing quite a by accident, but his body of work shows a talented writer.

Here are some interesting about Flynn you may not know.

1. Vincent Joseph Flynn was born in St Paul, Minnesota, in April 1966. He was one of seven children to parents Terry and Kathleen Flynn.

2. He graduated with a BA in Economics from the University of St Thomas in Minnesota and took a sales and marketing job for Kraft Foods.

3. Flynn enlisted with US Marine Corp as an aviator but was medically disqualified from the Marine Aviator Program just a week before starting Officer Candidate School.

4. He began writing as a way to treat his dyslexia. Flynn believed that a daily routine of reading and writing would help improve his condition. Among the many authors he read were Tom Clancy, Ernest Hemmingway and JRR Tolkien. This is inspired to write his own first novel, Term Limits, which he self-published in 1997.

5. The first book to feature his most famous character Mitch Rapp, a CIA assassin, was Transfer of Power, which was published in 1999. Flynn went on to write a total of 13 books featuring Rapp before his death in 2013. Kyle Mills has written a further six Mitch Rapp novels since 2015.

6. One of Flynn’s Mitch Rapp novels, America Assassin, was adapted into a 2017 movie starring Michael Keaton.

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