Don Bentley

NYT Bestselling author of FORGOTTEN WAR, Tom Clancy WEAPONS GRADE, and Vince Flynn DENIED ACCESS (2025). Former FBI Special Agent and Army Apache pilot.

[Don Bentley @bentleydonb]

Ready for the @VinceFlynncom Mitch Rapp #25 cover AND title reveal???

[Don Bentley @bentleydonb]

Congrats, Salena!

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

Thanks to all of you nearly 1 yr ago Butler debuted on the New York Times best selling list at #1 🇺🇸❤️
Cannot express adequately enough how much I appreciate your support but also how nearly impossible that is for someone like me to achieve that.
If you have not read Butler nothing has changed; not the history of what happened but also that place still defines where American politics is today.
As for the movie Butler based on the book? Well it's in production now right here where it all happened!
https://t.co/arg1pZ0bf8

[Don Bentley @bentleydonb]

Congrats, Simon!

[Simon Gervais @GervaisBooks]

Many thanks to @TheRealBookSpy for the fantastic review of THE ELIAS CONSPIRACY—out tomorrow!!!

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[Olesen Family @FamilyOlesen]

I truly hope you all had a fantastic July 4th weekend!! What a time to be an American and to celebrate #250freedom!🫡🇺🇸❤️🤍💙
Now we are moving past July 4th celebrations, I want to remind you all about @VinceFlynncom @bentleydonb Double Tap!!!Get your copy on order!!!

[Don Bentley @bentleydonb]

Congrats and happy reading!

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Congratulations to Eric and Maxine, the latest winners of a signed edition of NY TIMES Bestseller DENIED ACCESS.

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Congrats, Linda!

[Linda Castillo @LindaCastillo11]

I’m thrilled to announce the A DARK PATH book tour! Kicking things off this year with two events in beautiful Indianapolis. Then I’m off to the marvelous Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale where I’ll be chatting it up with (drumroll!) Ashley Winstead and Kelsey Cox. I’m very much looking forward to seeing all of my book pals on the road (waving madly to everyone in Dover!!) All the event times, locations, and links are on my website. https://t.co/YQqzLHKUEs If you’re out and about swing by and get an autographed copy of the book. See you then!

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Get your copy!

[Bill Schweigart @BillSchweigart]

Hours left on the DIRTY 20 Kindle sale!
#litrpg #dnd #crimefiction

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@fred_burton @FXRegan @AllThingsNatSec @stick631 @TheJohnNantz Back when agents still carried six shooters!

[Kirsten Fleming @KirFlem]

Happy 4th and 250th from Jersey. So much gratitude. Maybe my grandparents stay in Spain or go to Argentina like so much of my family. Who knows. But by the grace of God, I’m an American.

[Simone Syed @SimoneSyed]

Love the smell of new jet in the afternoon

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[Keli Rabon @KeliRabon]

One year ago, around this time, I was speeding across Texas, fighting back tears and streaming live news coverage on my phone, trying to get to my sons at Camp La Junta in Hunt, TX.

There had been a massive amount of rain overnight, and I woke up to a text saying they were without power and cell service.

Little did I know that just hours earlier, 119 people in that small county (139 total) had lost their lives in an unfathomable flood.

My 7-year-old, Brock, fresh out of Kindergarten, had one full day at camp. My 9 yr old, Braeden, was in a different cabin. Around 3 AM, Brock woke up on a soaked mattress. The Guadalupe River had already risen nearly level with his bottom bunk. His teenage counselors lifted the little boys to the top bunks.

Within minutes, that still wasn’t high enough.

In the pitch black, freezing water filled with debris, gasoline, branches, snakes—everything you can imagine—kept rising. The boys were moved higher, into the rafters and onto the tops of the shower stalls, just trying to stay ahead of the water.

Little did they know those bunk beds and vaulted ceilings would be a key reason they survived—while 27 girls at Camp Mystic, just minutes away, did not. They had followed orders to “shelter in place,” but the girls simply ran out of room.

Back at Camp La Junta, about 60 boys were trapped in a triplex of three cabins. The oldest counselor was maybe 18. There was no prior camp safety training, barely any cell service, and no clear plan. Their 911 calls were answered occasionally, but help wasn’t coming.

By then, the whole area was overwhelmed, and Kerr County was wholly unprepared. Some 911 calls weren’t just being routed to other counties - they were even forwarded to the local library. At 4 AM on July 4th, no one was there. It was kids saving kids.

The cabins started breaking apart. Windows, doors, and even a wall crumbled as the water ripped through. One teenage counselor couldn’t handle the terrified screams of the little boys anymore and took his chances in the flood. He survived—but it was a choice no kid should ever have to make.

A small cabin with young staffers inside tore off its foundation and slammed into the triplex where Brock was, like a bowling ball hitting the bumpers, before miraculously being stopped by a tree.

Their security guard, brand new to the job, had taken refuge in the Dining Hall. As the building fell apart, she was pulled into the river. She grabbed a Gatorade cooler and held on for dear life, colliding with vehicles and barbed wire as the thick, freezing water tore off her clothes and broke her finger in a surreal, incomprehensible ride downstream. When she finally managed to grab onto a tree more than a mile away, she stumbled through the dark and the storm until she found a home. Nearly naked, she rang the doorbell of a stranger who took her in.

The worst of the terror lasted only a couple of hours. The nightmares have lasted much longer.

Now, my sons fear the sound of heavy rain. They instinctively scan rooms for higher ground or emergency exits. And that’s just their piece of the trauma. So many others lost lives, homes, their entire sense of safety.

As a family, the boys & I will never forget the July 4th Floods. We’ve advocated for help and change - not just because of what my kids went through, but because of what that entire community endured: a natural disaster full of manmade failures.

I hope you will never forget either.

[Don Bentley @bentleydonb]

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[Matt Persson @fratmatt13]

Congrats to the new and returning Mitch Rapp Ambassadors

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Grateful to live in this beautiful country 🇺🇸

[Don Bentley @bentleydonb]

@MllrChris @JackCarr @BradThor @BestThrillBooks @AtriaMysteryBus I love texting with old Army buddies and enjoying the day! AMERICA!!! 🇺🇸🎆🎇🧨

[Cons @CaptainCons]

Perhaps the greatest lesson from America’s storied 250 year history is that it’s hard.

The idea that you can build a foundation that will stand the test of time after countless challenges is hard. Possessing the fortitude to oppose tyranny is hard.

America has never enjoyed an easy time in our history and yet here we are, still standing as the greatest country in the world. We find ourselves in difficult times but as I look around I see an uncommon magnitude of pride right now.

I love this country and all that it stands for. I am grateful to the men and women who have fought bravely to ensure she may never perish. I’m not ashamed to boast about the freedom we thrive under every day.

Nothing in this life worth having is easy and that’s why America is amazing…because we’ve worked hard to earn it. We’ve stumbled at times but we knock off the dirt and proclaim, “is that all you got?”

Happy 250th America. It will be hard, but may we forge a path forward, together, that continues to instill pride in all draped in the red, white, and blue.

[Don Bentley @bentleydonb]

Congrats, Morgan!

[Morgan Shamy 🩰📖 @MorganShamy]

Walking and thinking about how…

—this book got 7 offers of rep from agents in 2011. Failed on sub.
—Got 3 offers of rep in 2019. Failed on sub.
—-Got 1 offer of rep & now it’s coming out with Entangled/Mayhem Books & PRH Michael Joseph & more

Sometimes dreams take time! 🩰🔥

[Don Bentley @bentleydonb]

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