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Bill Rapp

Spy Games: The Difficulty of Creating Suspense While Keeping Spy Fiction Realistic

By Bill Rapp

December 7, 2017

I suppose it would be difficult to find someone at the Agency who would not find fault with most of the espionage fiction written today—or in the past for that matter. A major concern would revolve around the tradecraft in the books—especially the fascination with assassinations and gunplay—but also more basic things like counter-surveillance and asset…

Bill Rapp Excerpt: The Hapsburg Variation

By Bill Rapp

November 28, 2017

The Hapsburg Variation by Bill Rapp is the second book in the Cold War Thriller series (available December 1, 2017). Eight years into his career with the CIA, Karl Baier once again finds himself on the front line of the Cold War. He is stationed in Vienna in the spring of 1955 as Austria and…

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