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.

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.

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