The Prague Spring is the seventh book in Bill Rapp's Cold War Thriller series, which draws on his forty-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency, as well his previous time as an academic historian on Modern Europe (B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, M.A. from the University of Toronto, and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University). He taught for a year at Iowa State before moving to Washington for an eventful four decades spent primarily in Washington but with tours in Europe, the Middle East, and the White House. Upon his retirement in 2017, Bill was awarded the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal. Bill also has a stand-alone thriller about the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin Breakdown, and a three-book P.I. series set outside Chicago, where he lives with his wife, their older daughter, and two dogs.