Back in the mid ’90s a bartender in Minnesota, with a degree in economics and business, came up with an idea for a political thriller. That idea turned into Vince Flynn’s first book, Term Limits, published in 1998.
It became a bestseller and launched a career that saw Vince Flynn write over two dozen more books
The hero of most of those books is a professional assassin, a character that Flynn named Mitch Rapp.
I interviewed Vince for that first book, and many more afterwards, including his 2009 book Pursuit of Honor. It was a fast-paced book that picked up where his previous book Extreme Measures left off.
Vince and I talked about Pursuit of Honor one fall day in Washington, DC when he was on the book tour. And as you’re about to hear the conversation sometimes turned to topics more than just writing books.
So here now, from 2009, Vince Flynn.
This interview was the last of nearly a dozen interviews I did with Vince Flynn. He died in 2013 from prostate cancer. He was 47.