Bill Rapp. Five Star Publishing, $25.95 (252p) ISBN 978-1-4328-3011-3
In this routine thriller from Rapp (Berlin Breakdown), Capt. Karl Baier, an American employed by U.S. Army intelligence in post-WWII Berlin, examines “German industrial and scientific records” to identify individuals who actively aided the Nazis....
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Bill Rapp. Coffeetown, $15.95 trade paper (264p) ISBN 978-1-60381-643-4
Set in 1955, Rapp’s sturdy second thriller featuring Karl Baier (after 2015’s Tears of Innocence) finds the CIA officer stationed in Vienna as the deputy chief of station. An early morning summons from the Austrian Interior Ministry takes Baier to...
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Bill Rapp. Coffeetown, $16.95 trade paper (226p) ISBN 978-1-94207-812-8
Rapp puts his extensive knowledge of cold war history and his career in U.S. intelligence to work in his solid if somewhat prosaic fourth thriller featuring CIA officer Karl Baier (after 2019’s The Budapest Escape). In 1961 Berlin, Baier is trying...
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