Vince Flynn

A couple of them have passed on, unfortunately.

Vince Flynn died, and he was part of that group.

We all kind of came together.

Yeah,

Right.

Um, these, these thrillers, obviously the, the, the Vince Flynn series and the Vince Flynn estate now, and the guys that are writing it, Brad Thor, Jack Carr, Mark Greeney, all of these guys, um, they write, they write so well and they do it so well.

There is a point, um, where I really, I stopped reading this stuff cause you know, just my, my, my day-to-day job, uh, I didn't reading it to unwind was not, it was, they, they wrote, they write too well and they write too realistic.

And that's the highest compliment I can pay them where there was a period of time where I can't read this stuff to relax.

You know, that's how we started the podcast.

We were originally the Mitch rap podcast, went through the whole series, did hours of content reviewing each book.

So Vince Flynn, you know, holds a place in our hearts as well.

But, um, Alex, I think you keep chugging along.

We

go by this box every day on the block in Jude and all the rest of it, and I put a Vince Flynn book in there several months ago.

It was in there for less than an hour.

Yeah, well, it wasn't a signed one.

know, I thought they were really, you know...

Tinker Taylor was probably you know 10 years old at the time or whatever I mean some of the Flemings were older than that but I remember seeing those for so long seeing them and then finally be able to tip those from their perches and read those and then those were time machines for me from the 80s back to the 50s the 60s and 70s but yeah I was so fortunate to read all those all those masters back then and then find Stephen Hunter a little later and then read all his earlier work as well just just incredible and then kept reading my entire life and Some of the guys that I read a little later would be a Vince Flynn.

So, I mean, just, just amazing too, but he left us far too, too early.

Like she was still still with us writing today.

But of course, the Tom Clancy's as well.

And Tom Clancy, of course, is no longer with us either.

And then finding Daniel Silva around the same time I found Vince Flynn, maybe a little earlier, a little earlier, but just fantastic.

He was still writing today, who I think is fantastic.

Thank you.

And I think we've probably talked about this in the previous time that was on too, is I didn't, I've read so much like the series growing up and like Clancy and then Vince Flynn.

And, you know, I've read kind of those characters where, you know, on page one, you know, Mitch Rapp will also be on page 374 because they got a four book contract.

Mitch might get blown up, thrown out of a plane, shot, all this.

Uh, involves a, a character named Mitch Rapp.

Uh, Vince Flynn started this, I forget what year.

Uh, there's been twenty some books in this series.

The latest-- Vince passed, uh, more than a decade ago, and, uh, Kyle Mills took on the series for a while.

It does take us back in time a little bit.

We explain the whys and, and all that, the mechanics of putting this together a-and being a part of, of this very popular series.

The, the Vince Flynn Mitch Rapp series has been going on now for more than two decades.

My conversation with Don Bentley.

Yeah

... um, any, d- do you ever get together with other Minneapolis authors, uh, Vince Flynn, John Sandford?

Um, you know, I, um, I, I, I only met Vince once.

I never had a chance to meet John before he actually ca- he m- lives down here now, doesn't he? So-