Vince Flynn, 47, thriller writer

[Evan Hulka]

(...re-proving the axiom that as soon as I take someone off my deadpool list, he or she will die - Hulka)

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/06/19/mn-author-vince-flynn-dies-at-47/

MN Author Vince Flynn Dies At 47
June 19, 2013 8:20 AM

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Minnesota author Vince Flynn has died after a long battle with prostate cancer.

WCCO-TV has learned that Flynn died Wednesday morning at United Hospital in St. Paul.

Flynn has authored 15 novels centered around the character of Mitch Rapp, an undercover CIA agent. The majority of those novels have made it to the New York Times bestseller list.

After releasing his 13th, “Kill Shot,” Flynn talked with WCCO-TV’s Frank Vascellaro about his battle with cancer. You can watch that full interview here.

“I was in pain writing the last 2 books, but I didn’t know how serious it was,” Flynn said in early 2012, at the time of the interview.

He went to doctors, who thought he may have had a bacterial infection in his prostate. But by November of 2010, he said couldn’t even sit for even an hour or two.

His message for men with prostate cancer was to stay positive. Never surrender, he told Vascellaro, and find the professionals that can help you beat the disease. Flynn dedicated “Kill Shot” to the doctors aggressively treating prostate cancer.

Flynn had a wife and three children.

[Sarah Ehrett]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:02:43 -0700 (PDT), Evan Hulka <ehu...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) � Minnesota author Vince Flynn has died after a long battle with prostate >cancer.

At 47? Wow.

I read a few of his books during the warm days of summers past.

Prostate cancer doctors say will eventually effect every man if he lives
long enough and other things don't take him out first.

[Scott Brady]

On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:59:21 PM UTC-5, Sarah Ehrett wrote:

> Prostate cancer doctors say will eventually effect every man if he lives
> long enough and other things don't take him out first.

It also killed his dad at a young age.

A local radio host, on whose show Flynn always kicked off his book tours, hinted yesterday that he needed prayers, which sent me scrambling for news. Aside from the fact that he hadn't updated his web site in months, there was no clue.

[Brigid Nelson]

On 13-06-19 10:59 AM, Sarah Ehrett wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:02:43 -0700 (PDT), Evan Hulka <ehu...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>

>> MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) � Minnesota author Vince Flynn has died after a long battle with prostate >cancer.

>
> At 47? Wow.
>
> I read a few of his books during the warm days of summers past.
>
> Prostate cancer doctors say will eventually effect every man if he lives
> long enough and other things don't take him out first.
>

Like breast cancers, prostate cancers vary in terms of their
aggressiveness. I personally doubt that heroic medical treatment would
have appreciably halted the progress of his cancer. It certainly would
have negatively affected his quality of life.

It's very sad when someone so young dies from cancer, but in some cases
early detection brings only impoverishment and false hope.

brigid

[MWB]

I listened to a few minutes of Rush today. A very moving tribute from a
very close friend.


GO RED SOX NATION


Mark

[Scott Brady]

On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 1:57:15 PM UTC-5, MWB wrote:

> I listened to a few minutes of Rush today. A very moving tribute from a
> very close friend.

I made a point of tuning in.

Right now I'm listening to highlights of old Flynn interviews on Garage Logic with Joe Soucheray, a show that was instrumental in breaking his first novel and to which he granted the first interview for every subsequent release. Available live now or later today for playback or download.

http://www.1500espn.com/ondemand/

[Louis Epstein]

Brigid Nelson <irja...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 13-06-19 10:59 AM, Sarah Ehrett wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:02:43 -0700 (PDT), Evan Hulka <ehu...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>

>>> MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) ? Minnesota author Vince Flynn has died after a long battle with prostate >cancer.

>>
>> At 47? Wow.
>>
>> I read a few of his books during the warm days of summers past.
>>
>> Prostate cancer doctors say will eventually effect every man if he lives
>> long enough and other things don't take him out first.
>>
>
> Like breast cancers, prostate cancers vary in terms of their
> aggressiveness. I personally doubt that heroic medical treatment would
> have appreciably halted the progress of his cancer. It certainly would
> have negatively affected his quality of life.
>
> It's very sad when someone so young dies from cancer, but in some cases
> early detection brings only impoverishment and false hope.
>
> brigid

Surely early detection and a prostatectomy would have made a difference?

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

[Brigid Nelson]

It's really hard to say, but at his age with a very aggressive form of
the disease, it had probably metastasised before he even knew it was
there. The stats on five-year survival are colored by the fact that most
men over 50 will have some cancerous cells in their prostates. Most of
these incidents will be a slower growing form of the disease, one that
can take 20 years or more to cause death. Odds are very good that at
that age, something else is going to get you before the cancer. Treating
a slow growing cancer aggressively looks like a win because you're still
alive after 5 years (you would have been anyway) but now you're stuck
with the side-effects of treatment (incontinence, erectile
dysfunction)and you've been labelled as a cancer survivor which makes
you very unappetizing to insurance companies.

brigid

[Scott Brady]

On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 6:08:27 PM UTC-5, Brigid Nelson wrote:

> It's really hard to say, but at his age with a very aggressive form of
> the disease, it had probably metastasised before he even knew it was
> there.

He had said as such in interviews, but was always upbeat and positive in assessing his chances of survival.