Vince Flynn

This lens will be about my personal favorite author, Vince Flynn who is the author of many New York Times Bestselling books such as Consent to Kill, Term Limits, and most recently Protect and Defend. 

As a child he fought to overcome his dyslexia which made reading and writing challenging for him, which made his current career choice as an author a very interesting choice.  At first Flynn used his degree in economics to work the standard 9-5 for Kraft Foods until he decided to apply for a position in the United States Marine Corps.  He was disqualified for medical reasons and resumed working a 9-5 for another company until he decided to pursue his desire to write a book, Term Limits. 

As with many first time authors he got rejected from many different publishers but rather than continue the search for a publisher or scrap his book he actually decided to self publish his first book, a very uncommon move that typically doesn't yield good results.  The book quickly climbed the ranks of the book critics and became a New York Times Bestseller, as did all of his Mitch Rapp books to follow.  He was offered a job as a writer on the hit Fox tv series "24", my favorite show, but negiotiated with Fox to act as a consultant for the script instead.  His most recent work (his ninth novel), Protect and Defend was published on October 30th of this year (2007).

His books are so successful due to the way that they truly immerse the reader with the perfect match of details and plot.  It has really redefined the term "page turner" for me as I will sit down and read an entire novel in one sitting because I can't think of something I would rather do (this is coming from a teenage college kid in a dorm with 5 other people and 5 different video game consoles).  The main reason why I love his novels so much is that they are a perfect mixture of action and storyline, there is enough action to keep you glued to the page but unlike most writers every action is in the book for a reason and may have a deeper impact later on in the novel or even the series.  I consider myself to be an avid reader and I cannot possibly recommend an author's books anymore than those of Vince Flynn.