Vince Flynn

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.