You can Make This Stuff up: Vince Flynn Writes of a World in Which Terrorists are Always at the Door. Unfortunately, Official Washington Hasn't Realized He's a Novelist (Profile)

THE BUSH AIDE who claimed "We create our own reality" could have added that novelist Vince Flynn would be a consultant. Flynn's books have been discussed by cabinet members and intelligence-agency heads. He claims his potboilers are the bedtime reading of Presidents Clinton and Bush. Last month, he landed at the top of the New York Times bestseller list with Extreme Measures. And after signing a lucrative deal with CBS Films, he is sending the protagonist of his novels, CIA super-killer Mitch Rapp, to a multiplex near you. It's Vince Flynn's world--we in the reality-based community have to get used to it. What Tom Clancy did for the Cold War, Flynn is doing for the war on terror. His ten books have made him the darling of talk-radio and media hawks. Laura Ingraham had him on her show to discuss geopolitics. Bill O'Reilly said of Flynn's Memorial Day, "Every American should read this book." The Washington Times considers Rapp "A Rambo perfectly suited to the war on terror."