Memorial Day by Vince Flynn

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Vince Flynn
• Title: Memorial Day (Mitch Rapp Thriller Series)
• Publisher: ‎ Atria Books; First Atria Books Hardcover Edition (May 4, 2004)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 407 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0743453972
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0743453974
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.45 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.4 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (shows some minor shelf wear)
• Edition: First Atria Books Hardcover Edition

Synopsis:

Fighting terrorism on foreign ground, CIA super agent Mitch Rapp does whatever it takes to protect American freedom in this blistering political thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn.

CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States, just as the nation’s capital prepares for a grand Memorial Day tribute to the veterans of World War II. Racing to Afghanistan, Mitch Rapp leads a commando raid on an al Queda stronghold in a remote border village—and defuses plans for a nuclear strike on Washington. The crisis averted, the special ops work is done. But Rapp knows, in the face of a new kind of enemy, nothing is as it seems—and it’s up to him alone to avert a disaster of unimaginable proportions.

About the Author:

The fifth of seven children, Vince Flynn was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1966. He graduated from the St. Thomas Academy in 1984, and the University of St. Thomas with a degree in economics in 1988.

After college he went to work for Kraft General Foods where he was an account and sales marketing specialist.

In 1990 he left Kraft to accept an aviation candidate slot with the United States Marine Corps. One week before leaving for Officers Candidate School, he was medically disqualified from the Marine Aviation Program, due to several concussions and convulsive seizures he suffered growing up. While trying to obtain a medical waiver for his condition, he started thinking about writing a book. This was a very unusual choice for Flynn since he had been diagnosed with dyslexia in grade school and had struggled with reading and writing all his life.

Having been stymied by the Marine Corps, Flynn returned to the nine-to-five grind and took a job with United Properties, a commercial real estate company in the Twin Cities. During his spare time he worked on an idea he had for a book. After two years with United Properties he decided to take a big gamble. He quit his job, moved to Colorado, and began working full time on what would eventually become Term Limits.

Like many struggling artists before him, he bartended at night and wrote during the day. Five years and more than sixty rejection letters later he took the unusual step of self-publishing his first novel. The book went to number one in the Twin Cities, and within a week had a new agent and two-book deal with Pocket Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint.

He lived in Minneapolis with his wife and three children. He died on June 19, 2013, after a three-year battle with prostate cancer.