Novelist and best selling author Vince Flynn died on Wednesday at the age of 47 after battling stage three metastatic prostate cancers for over two years.
Flynn died at United Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, survived by his wife Lysa, a stepson, 16, and two daughters, 11 and 9, according to USA TODAY.
Flynn is best known for his CIA-inspired stories that starred leading man Mitch Rapp, a counterterrorism operative, who conservatives grew to love.
Many of his fans tended to be right wing and loved the way he delivered Mitch, but often expressed how spine-chillingly accurately his stories were compared to real life CIA operations.
At one point fan and former President George W. Bush said Flynn was "a little too accurate" and even grilled him once from a limo at Andrews Air Force Base on where the author got his information, reported the publication.
"I started to stutter," Flynn said when he was asked about the interrogation, but later said that his books are merely "entertainment... and serve as cautionary tales."
Not all of his fans are conservative, he once declared, according to USA, but those on the right are more interested because the themes in his book are pro-military and push "the idea that the United States is not the problem."
In a 2012 interview with USA TODAY, Flynn talked briefly about how he was coping with cancer as he continued to write.
"The first 48 hours of my diagnosis were hellish," he told the magazine. "Things just seemed to get worst and worse. We [he and his wife] were sneaking around the house whispering so the kids wouldn't hear us. It was horrible."
"But, I feel great now," he then said. "We have this under control."
In a statement by Carolyn Reidy, President and Chief Executive Officer of Simon & Schuster, Inc., she said, "He had a truly unique ability to make everyone - from those of us at Simon & Schuster who were fortunate to be part of his publication, to booksellers and retailers around the nation, and most of all, his readers, with whom he had a very close relationship - feel as if we were on his team and sharing in his life and his success. Yes, we will miss the Mitch Rapp stories that are classic modern thrillers, but we will miss Vince even more."
